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We demonstrate by a large set of merger simulations for symmetric binary neutron stars (NSs) that there is a tight correlation between the frequency peak of the postmerger gravitational-wave (GW) emission and the physical properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Bauswein , H. -Th. Janka

Binary neutron star mergers are strong gravitational wave (GW) sources and the leading candidates to interpret short duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). Under the assumptions that SGRBs are produced by double neutron star mergers and that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-06 He Gao , Bing Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Nina Kunert , Guilherme Grams , William Newton , Edoardo Giangrandi , Anna Puecher , Hauke Koehn , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

The secondary component of GW190814 with a mass of 2.50-2.67 $M_{\odot}$ may be the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star ever observed in a binary compact object system. To explore the possible equation of state (EOS), which can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Xuhao Wu , Shishao Bao , Hong Shen , Renxin Xu

The nuclear symmetry energy plays a role in determining both the nuclear properties of terrestrial matter as well as the astrophysical properties of neutron stars. The first measurement of the neutron star tidal deformability, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Carolyn A. Raithel , Feryal Ozel

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has expanded efforts to understand the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter. These measurements provide new constraints on the overall pressure,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-07-24 M. B. Tsang , W. G. Lynch , P. Danielewicz , C. Y. Tsang

It is currently unknown how matter behaves at the extreme densities found within the cores of neutron stars. Measurements of the neutron star equation of state probe nuclear physics that is otherwise inaccessible in a laboratory setting.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Kris Walker , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Daniel J. Reardon

The LIGO/Virgo detection of gravitational waves originating from a neutron-star merger, GW170817, has recently provided new stringent limits on the tidal deformabilities of the stars involved in the collision. Combining this measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksi Vuorinen

Gravitational-wave astronomy shows great promise in determining nuclear physics in a regime not accessible to terrestrial experiments. We introduce physics-informed priors constrained by nuclear theory and perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Spencer J. Magnall , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla , Paul D. Lasky , Simon R. Goode

The recent detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star events has opened a new window on the many unknown aspects of their internal dynamics. A key role in this context is played by the transition from baryon to quark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-08 Abha Rajan , Tyler Gorda , Simonetta Liuti , Kent Yagi

Detection of gravitational waves from accreting neutron stars (NSs) in our galaxy, due to ellipticity or internal oscillation, would be a breakthrough in our understanding of compact objects and explain the absence of NSs rotating near the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Watts , Badri Krishnan , Lars Bildsten , Bernard Schutz

Although gravitational waves only interact weakly with matter, their propagation is affected by a gravitational potential. If a gravitational wave source is eclipsed by a star, measuring these perturbations provides a way to directly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Pablo Marchant , Katelyn Breivik , Christopher P. L. Berry , Ilya Mandel , Shane L. Larson

We propose a method to constrain the variation of the gravitational constant $G$ with cosmic time using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of merging binary neutron stars. The method essentially relies on the fact that the maximum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating a finite-temperature (Shen's) equation of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling for the first time. It is found that for this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-22 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

Within the parameter space of equation of state (EOS) of dense neutron-rich matter limited by existing constraints mainly from terrestrial nuclear experiments, we investigate how the neutron star maximum mass $M_{\rm{max}}>2.01\pm0.04$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li , Jun Xu

Gravitational wave interferometers have studied compact object mergers and solidified our understanding of strong gravity. Their increasing precision raises the possibility of detecting new physics, especially in a neutron star binary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Ian Harris , Yonatan Kahn

We develop a non-parametric method for inferring the universal neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) from gravitational wave (GW) observations. Many different possible realizations of the EOS are generated with a Gaussian process…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Philippe Landry , Reed Essick

One of the main goals of gravitational-wave astrophysics is to study gravity in the strong-field regime and constrain deviations from general relativity (GR). Any such deviation affects not only binary dynamics and gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Stephanie M. Brown , Badri Krishnan , Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews

Gravitational Waves (GWs) from coalescing binaries carry crucial information about their component sources, like mass, spin and tidal effects. This implies that the analysis of GW signals from binary neutron star mergers can offer unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Shriya Soma , Horst Stöcker , Kai Zhou

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating both nucleonic and hyperonic finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling. It is found that for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata