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The low density nuclear matter equation of state is strongly constrained by nuclear properties, however, for constraining the high density equation of state it is necessary to resort to indirect information obtained from the observation of…

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According to the theoretical study, a deformation object (e.g., a spinning non-axisymmetric pulsar star) will radiate a gravitational wave (GW) signal during an accelaration motion process by LIGO science project. These types of disturbance…

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Recent observations from NICER in X-rays and LIGO/Virgo in gravitational waves have provided critical constraints on the mass, radius, and tidal deformability of neutron stars, imposing stringent limits on the equation of state (EOS) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 R. Moradi , Y. Wang , F. Rastegarnia , E. S. Yorgancioglu , Shu-Xu Yi , B. Eslam Panah , S. N. Zhang

In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and after the merger of binary neutron stars. I also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-30 Luca Baiotti

A principal goal of gravitational-wave astronomy is to constrain the neutron star equation of state (EOS) by measuring the tidal deformability of neutron stars. The tidally induced departure of the waveform from that of point-particle (or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-05 Eric D. Van Oeveren , John L. Friedman

Astrophysical observations from NICER and gravitational wave data constrain the properties of matter at the cores of neutron stars, enabling us to probe high-density matter with greater accuracy. To understand its implications for neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Asim Kumar Saha , Tuhin Malik , Ritam Mallick

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnants complement constraints from the inspiral phase, mass-radius measurements, and microscopic theory by providing information about the neutron-star equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Christian Ecker , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Luciano Rezzolla

We present ${\tt NRPMw}$, an analytical model of gravitational-waves from neutron star merger remnants informed using 618 numerical relativity (NR) simulations. ${\tt NRPMw}$ is designed in the frequency domain using a combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Kabir Chakravarti , Alessandro Camilletti , Aviral Prakash , Albino Perego

GW170817 has provided valuable constraints on the equations of state of merging binary neutron stars, which can be considered as the most probable candidate for the source of gravitational waves. On the other hand, these natural…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-22 Z. Sharifi , M. Bigdeli , D. Alvarez-Castillo

We show that gravitational wave emission from neutron star binaries can be used to discover any generic long-ranged muonic force due to the large inevitable abundance of muons inside neutron stars. As a minimal consistent example, we focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-14 Jeff A. Dror , Ranjan Laha , Toby Opferkuch

Gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars cannot be easily distinguished from those produced by a comparable-mass mixed binary in which one of the companions is a black hole. Low-mass black holes are interesting because they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Margherita Fasano , Kaze W. K. Wong , Andrea Maselli , Emanuele Berti , Valeria Ferrari , Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash

Within the next few years gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) may be directly detected, making a thorough theoretical understanding of these systems a high priority. As an additional motivation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-08 Branson C. Stephens , William E. East , Frans Pretorius

The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is a remarkable astrophysical event where all four fundamental forces interplay dynamically across multiple stages, producing a rich spectrum of multi-messenger signals. These observations present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 S. K. Maurya , A. Errehymy , Ksh. Newton Singh , G. Mustafa , Saibal Ray

Astronomical observations place increasingly tighter and more diverse constraints on the properties of neutron stars (NS). Examples include observations of radio or gamma-ray pulsars, accreting neutron stars and x-ray bursts, magnetar giant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 Wolfgang Kastaun , Frank Ohme

We investigate the gravitational wave (GW) signals emitted by planetary-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) passing nearby or traversing neutron stars (NSs). While previous studies mainly focused on the detailed waveforms of the signals, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Nicolas Esser , Juan García-Bellido , Peter Tinyakov

GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest observed black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Ivan Markin , Anna Puecher , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

We investigate the question of the nature of compact stars, considering they may be neutron stars or hybrid stars containing a quark core, within the present constraints given by gravitational waves, radio-astronomy, X-ray emissions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 H. Güven , J. Margueron , K. Bozkurt , E. Khan

Binary neutron star mergers provide a unique laboratory for studying matter under conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial experiments. They probe dense matter at supranuclear density, finite temperature, rapid rotation, strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Armen Sedrakian

Gravitational wave observations can potentially measure properties of neutron star equations of state by measuring departures from the point-particle limit of the gravitational waveform produced in the late inspiral of a neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-19 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman , Benjamin D. Lackey

Gravitational waves (GWs) have rapidly become important cosmological probes since their first detection in 2015. As the number of detected events continues to rise, upcoming instruments like the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Stefano Zazzera , José Fonseca , Tessa Baker , Chris Clarkson