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After the detection of gravitational waves caused by the coalescence of compact objects in the mass range of neutron stars, GW170817, several studies have searched for an imprint of tidal effects in the signal, employing different model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-02 Wolfgang Kastaun , Frank Ohme

Inspirals of neutron star-neutron star binaries are a promising source of gravitational waves for gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. During the inspiral, the tidal gravitational field of one of the stars can resonantly excite internal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Prakash Balachandran , Eanna E. Flanagan

The excitation of $f$-mode in a neutron star member of coalescing binaries accelerates the merger course, and thereby introduces a phase shift in the gravitational waveform. Emphasising on the tidal phase shift by aligned, rotating stars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Hao-Jui Kuan , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Rossby waves (r-modes) in rapidly rotating neutron stars are unstable because of the emission of gravitational radiation. We study saturation of this instability by nonlinear transfer of energy to stellar "inertial" oscillation modes. We…

Tidal interactions in coalescing binary neutron stars modify the dynamics of the inspiral and hence imprint a signature on their gravitational wave (GW) signals in the form of an extra phase shift. We need accurate models for the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg , Phil Arras , James Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav

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

Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are capable of measuring tidal influences in binary neutron-star systems. In this work, we report on the statistical uncertainties in measuring tidal deformability with a full Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Leslie Wade , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Evan Ochsner , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin F. Farr , Tyson B. Littenberg , Vivien Raymond

We use gravitational-wave observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 to explore the tidal deformabilities and radii of neutron stars. We perform Bayesian parameter estimation with the source location and distance informed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-01 Soumi De , Daniel Finstad , James M. Lattimer , Duncan A. Brown , Edo Berger , Christopher M. Biwer

The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the neutron star binary inspiral GW170817 has opened a unique avenue to probe matter and fundamental interactions in previously unexplored regimes. Extracting information on neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-07 Patricia Schmidt , Tanja Hinderer

Gravitational waves from inspiralling binary neutron stars provide unique access to ultra-dense nuclear matter and offer the ability to constrain the currently unknown neutron star equation-of-state through tidal measurements. This,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Natalie Williams , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten

The gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star inspiral contains information on the nuclear equation of state. This information is contained in a combination of the tidal polarizability parameters of the two neutron stars and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Loic Villain

Strong magnetic fields make neutron stars potential sources of detectable electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals. Hence, inferring these magnetic fields is critical to understand the emissions of neutron stars. However, due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Neutron stars in coalescing binaries deform due to the tidal gravitational fields generated by their companions. During the inspiral phase, the tidal deformation is dominated by the fundamental oscillation ($f$-) mode of the stars. The tide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 K. J. Kwon , Hang Yu , Tejaswi Venumadhav

The Rossby mode (r-mode) perturbations in pulsars as a steady gravitational wave (GW) sources have been explored. The time evolution and the intensity of the emitted GWs in terms of the strain tensor amplitude have been estimated with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-01 Joydev Lahiri , D. N. Basu

Neutron stars may exhibit pressure anisotropy arising from various physical mechanisms, such as elasticity, magnetic fields, viscosity, and superfluidity. We compute the tidal deformability and the $f$-mode oscillation frequency of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Victor Guedes , Siddarth Ajith , Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations from Neutron Stars (NS) in a binary system provide an excellent scenario to constrain the nuclear parameters. The investigation of Pratten et al. (2022) has shown that the ignorance of f-mode dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Tathagata Ghosh , Dhruv Pathak , Debarati Chatterjee

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (NSs) have opened unique opportunities to constrain the nuclear equation of state by measuring tidal effects associated with the excitation of characteristic modes of the NSs. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 Pawan Kumar Gupta , Jan Steinhoff , Tanja Hinderer

We investigate the dynamical tide in a gravitational wave (GW)-driven coalescing binary involving a neutron star (NS). The NS is assumed to spin rapidly, with its spin axis anti-aligned with the orbit. Such an NS may exist if the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Hang Yu , Phil Arras , Nevin N. Weinberg

This paper presents an estimate for the spectral properties of the stochastic background of gravitational waves emitted by a population of hot, young, rapidly rotating neutron stars throughout the Universe undergoing $f$-mode instabilities,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Marco Surace , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Pantelis Pnigouras

Gravitational waves (GW) emanating from unstable quasi-normal modes in Neutron Stars (NS) could be accessible with the improved sensitivity of the current GW detectors or with the next-generation GW detectors and, therefore, can be employed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Dhruv Pathak , Debarati Chatterjee