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When in a tight binary, the mutual tidal deformations of neutron stars imprint onto observables, encoding information about their internal structure at supranuclear densities and gravity in the extreme-gravity regime. Gravitational wave…

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The properties of neutron stars are determined by the nature of the matter that they contain. These properties can be constrained by measurements of the star's size. We obtain stringent constraints on neutron-star radii by combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Collin D. Capano , Ingo Tews , Stephanie M. Brown , Ben Margalit , Soumi De , Sumit Kumar , Duncan A. Brown , Badri Krishnan , Sanjay Reddy

We propose a density-dependent function for the attractive interaction in the original van der Waals model to correctly describe the flow constraint at the high-density regime of the symmetric nuclear matter. After a generalization to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 O. Lourenço , M. Dutra , C. H. Lenzi , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Biswal , B. M. Santos

Neutron stars are the densest known objects in the universe and an ideal laboratory for the strange physics of super-condensed matter. Theoretical studies in connection with recent observational data of isolated neutron stars, as well as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-09 P. S. Koliogiannis , A. Kanakis-Pegios , Ch. C. Moustakidis

The past years have witnessed tremendous progress in understanding the properties of neutron stars and of the dense matter in their cores, made possible by electromagnetic observations of neutron stars and the detection of gravitational…

Bayesian inference, widely used in gravitational-wave parameter estimation, depends on the choice of priors, i.e., on our previously existing knowledge. However, to investigate neutron star mergers, priors are often chosen in an agnostic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Thibeau Wouters , Peter T. H. Pang , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

GW170817, the milestone gravitational-wave event originated from a binary neutron star merger, has allowed scientific community to place a constraint on the equation of state of neutron stars by extracting the leading-order,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Xisco Jimenez-Forteza , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri

Gravitational-wave observations of inspiralling binary neutron star systems can be used to measure the neutron-star equation of state (EOS) through the tidally induced shift in the waveform phase that depends on the tidal deformability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Benjamin D. Lackey , Leslie Wade

We study the tidal disruption of neutron stars in black hole-neutron star coalescing binaries. We calculate the critical orbital separation at which the star is disrupted by the black hole tidal field for several equations of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri , F. Pannarale

We discuss masses, radii, and tidal deformabilities of neutron stars constructed from the holographic Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model. Using the same model for crust and core of the star, we combine our theoretical results with the latest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Nicolas Kovensky , Aaron Poole , Andreas Schmitt

Within a minimum model for neutron stars consisting of nucleons, electrons and muons at $\beta$-equilibrium using about a dozen Equation of States (EOSs) from microscopic nuclear many-body theories and 40,000 EOSs randomly generated using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 De-Hua Wen , Bao-An Li , Hou-Yuan Chen , Nai-Bo Zhang

The properties of matter at ultra-high densities, low temperatures, and with a significant asymmetry between protons and neutrons can be studied exclusively through astrophysical observations of neutron stars. We show that measurements of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-16 Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

We construct closed-form gravitational waveforms (GWs) with tidal effects for the coalescence and merger of binary neutron stars. The method relies on a new set of eccentricity-reduced and high-resolution numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Wolfgang Tichy

The very first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star binary merger, GW170817, exceeded all expectations. The event was relatively nearby, which may point to a relatively high merger rate. It was possible to extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Andreas Bauswein

We report neutron star predictions based on our most recent equations of state. These are derived from chiral effective field theory, which allows for a systematic development of nuclear forces, order by order. We utilize high-quality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-01 Francesca Sammarruca , Randy Millerson

We present a comprehensive study of spectroscopic radius measurements of twelve neutron stars obtained during thermonuclear bursts or in quiescence. We incorporate, for the first time, a large number of systematic uncertainties in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Tolga Guver , Gordon Baym , Craig Heinke , Sebastien Guillot

To detect the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from binary neutron stars and extract information about the equation of state of matter at nuclear density, it is necessary to match the signal with a bank of accurate templates. We present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-28 Luca Baiotti , Thibault Damour , Bruno Giacomazzo , Alessandro Nagar , Luciano Rezzolla

The difficulty in describing the equation of state (EoS) for nuclear matter at densities above the saturation density ($\rho_0$) has led to the emergence of a multitude of models based on different assumptions and techniques. These EoSs,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Ameya Thete , Kinjal Banerjee , Tuhin Malik

The properties of neutron star are studied in the framework of relativistic Hartree-Fock (RHF) model with realistic nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions, i.e. Bonn potentials. The strong repulsion of $NN$ interaction at short range is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Ying Zhang , Peng Liu , Jinniu Hu

The binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has cast a new light on nuclear physics research. Using a neutron-star model that includes a crust equation of state (EoS), we calculate the properties of a 1.4 solar-mass neutron star. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , Pawel Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev