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Double Neutron Stars (DNSs) are unique probes to study various aspects of modern astrophysics. Recent discoveries have confirmed direct connections between DNSs and supernova explosions. This provides valuable information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-09 Ali Taani , Mohammed Abu-Saleem , Mohammad Mardini , Hussam Aljboor , Mohammad Tayem

We perform a hierarchical Bayesian inference to investigate the population properties of the coalescing compact binaries involving at least one neutron star (NS). With the current observation data, we can not rule out either of the Double…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Yin-Jie Li , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We present an implementation of a Bayesian mixture model using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) techniques to search for spatial separation of Galactic dust populations. Utilizing intensity measurements from Planck High Frequency Instrument…

For a sample of 18 recycled millisecond pulsars (rMSPs) that are in double neutron star (DNS) systems, and 42 rMSPs that are not in DNS pairs, we analyze the distributions of the characteristic age, $\tau_c$, and the time until merger of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-14 Dan Maoz , Ehud Nakar

The discovery of a radioactively powered kilonova associated with the binary neutron star merger GW170817 was the first - and still only - confirmed electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event. However, observations of…

In this dissertation, we estimate the population of different classes of BNS systems that are visible to gravitational-wave observatories. Given that no ultra-compact BNS systems have been discovered in pulsar radio surveys, we place a 95\%…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Nihan Pol

The sample of neutron stars with a measured mass is growing quickly. With the latest sample, we adopt both a flexible Gaussian mixture model and a Gaussian plus Cauchy-Lorentz component model to infer the mass distribution of neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-10 Dong-Sheng Shao , Shao-Peng Tang , Jin-Liang Jiang , Yi-Zhong Fan

Using neural networks, we integrate the ability to account for Doppler smearing due to a pulsar's orbital motion with the pulsar population synthesis package \psrpoppy\ to develop accurate modeling of the observed binary pulsar population.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Nihan Pol , Maura McLaughlin , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathan Garver-Daniels

We investigate the gravitational wave (GW) signal generated by a population of double neutron-star binaries (DNS) with eccentric orbits caused by kicks during supernova collapse and binary evolution. The DNS population of a standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shenghua Yu , C. Simon Jeffery

We construct a combined model to incorporate neutron star (NS) mass measurements with electromagnetic mass-radius constraints and gravitational-wave observations using Bayesian inference. We use different mass distributions for three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-22 Mahmudul Hasan Anik , Andrew W. Steiner , Richard O'Shaughnessy

We have analyzed in this work the updated sample of neutron star masses derived from the study of a variety of 96 binary systems containing at least one neutron star using Bayesian methods. After updating the multimodality of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 L. S. Rocha , R. R. A. Bachega , J. E. Horvath , P. H. R. S. Moraes

Galactic binary neutron stars (BNSs) are a unique laboratory to probe the evolution of BNSs and their progenitors. Here, we use a new version of the population synthesis code SEVN to evolve the population of Galactic BNSs, by modeling the…

The statistical characteristics of double main-sequence (MS) binaries are essential for investigating star formation, binary evolution, and population synthesis. Our previous study proposed a machine learning-based method to identify MS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Jia-jia Li , Jian-ping Xiong , Zhi-jia Tian , Chao Liu , Zhan-wen Han , Xue-fei Chen

We develop a Bayesian model for globular clusters composed of multiple stellar populations, extending earlier statistical models for open clusters composed of simple (single) stellar populations (vanDyk et al. 2009, Stein et al. 2013).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 D. C. Stenning , R. Wagner-Kaiser , E. Robinson , D. A. van Dyk , T. von Hippel , A. Sarajedini , N. Stein

Aims. The mass discrepancy between the observed population of double neutron star binaries by radio pulsar observations and gravitational-wave observation requires an explanation. Methods. Binary population synthesis calculations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Matthias U. Kruckow

We revisit the merger rate for Galactic double neutron star (DNS) systems in light of recent observational insight into the longitudinal and latitudinal beam shape of the relativistic DNS PSR J1906$+$0746. Due to its young age and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Kathrin Grunthal , Michael Kramer , Gregory Desvignes

Double neutrons are especially important because they give most accurate informations on the masses of neutron stars. Observations on double neutron stars show that all masses of the neutron stars are below 1.5$\msun$. Furthermore, two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang-Hwan Lee , Gerald E. Brown

Galactic double neutron star systems have a tight mass distribution around $\sim 1.35 M_{\odot}$, but the mass distribution of all known pulsars is broader. Here we reconstruct the Alsing, et al. (2018) bimodal mass distribution of pulsars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-02 Will M. Farr , Katerina Chatziioannou

Double neutron star (DNS) systems could serve as intriguing dual-line gravitational-wave (GW) sources, emitting both high- and low-frequency GWs, arising respectively from the asymmetric spinning bodies of individual neutron stars (NSs) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Wen-Fan Feng , Lijing Shao

We summarize our results on the Galactic merger rate of double neutron stars (DNS) in view of the recent discovery of PSR J0737-3039. We also present previously unpublished results for the 'global' probability distribution of merger rate…