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Gravitational waves from the final stages of inspiralling binary neutron stars are expected to be one of the most important sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The masses of the components are determinable from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Sergey Postnikov , Madappa Prakash , James Lattimer

We investigate the tidal deformability of a superfluid neutron star. We calculate the equilibrium structure in the general relativistic two-fluid formalism with entrainment effect where we take neutron superfluid as one fluid and the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-10 Prasanta Char , Sayak Datta

This article is intended for undergraduate students with the aim to provide a pedagogical introduction to the physics of stellar tidal deformations. The spherically symmetric shape of any star is deformed via rotation around an arbitrary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-02 Andreas Zacchi

A neutron star in an inspiraling binary system is tidally deformed by its companion, and the effect leaves a measurable imprint on the emitted gravitational waves. While the tidal interaction falls within the regime of static tides during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Tristan Pitre , Eric Poisson

The tidal deformability is a key observable to test the nature of compact objects in a binary coalescence. Within vacuum General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of a four-dimensional black hole are strictly zero, while they are non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-26 Michela Silvestrini , Elisa Maggio , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational waves emitted in the late inspiral of binary neutron stars are affected by their tidal deformation. We study the tidal dynamics in full general relativity through matched-asymptotic expansions and prove that the dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Abhishek Hegade K. R. , K. J. Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Hang Yu , Nicolás Yunes

The moment of inertia and tidal deformability of idealized stars with polytropic equations of state (EOSs) are numerically calculated under both Newtonian gravity and general relativity (GR). The results explicitly confirm that the relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Rui Xu , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Lars Andersson , Pau Amaro Seoane

We investigate the nonlinear tidal response of relativistic neutron stars by computing the fully relativistic, static, quadratic Love numbers. Using both the worldline effective field theory for extended gravitating bodies and second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Paolo Pani , Massimiliano Maria Riva , Luca Santoni , Nikola Savić , Filippo Vernizzi

In spite of the diversity in the equations of state of nuclear matter, the recently discovered I-Love-Q relations [Yagi and Yunes, Science {\bf 341}, 365 (2013)], which relate the moment of inertia, tidal Love number (deformability) and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. K. Chan , Atma P. O. Chan , P. T. Leung

We investigate the moment of inertia, quadrupole deformation, and tidal deformation within the framework of nonlocal gravity, utilizing the exact modified Tolman-VII (NEMTVII) density model with an isotropic perfect fluid. The Love…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-01 Byon N. Jayawiguna , Piyabut Burikham

The gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star merger carries the imprint of the deformability properties of the coalescing bodies, and then of the equation of state of neutron stars. In current models of the waveforms emitted in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Gonçalo Castro , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

In this short note, we investigate the existence of universal relations between the gravimagnetic Love number of irrotational stars and the dimensionless moment of inertia. These Love numbers take into account the internal motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-29 Térence Delsate

Gravitational-wave observations in the near future may allow us to measure tidal deformabilities of neutron stars, which leads us to the understanding of physics at nuclear density. In principle, the gravitational waveform depends on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Kent Yagi

We investigate the properties of relativistic stars made of dark energy. We model stellar structure assuming i) isotropic perfect fluid and ii) a dark energy inspired equation of state, the generalized equation of state of Chaplygin gas, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-27 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Angel Rincon , Ilidio Lopes

The open question of whether a black hole can become tidally deformed by an external gravitational field has profound implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics and gravitational-wave astronomy. Love tensors characterize the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-02 Alexandre Le Tiec , Marc Casals

Recently, general relations among the quadrupole moment (Q), the moment of inertia (I), and the tidal deformability (Love number) of a neutron star were shown to exist. They are nearly independent of the nuclear matter equation of state and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 Brynmor Haskell , Riccardo Ciolfi , Francesco Pannarale , Luciano Rezzolla

A set of equations of state obtained from finite-range Gogny forces and momentum-dependent interactions is used to investigate the recent observation of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 event. For this set of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 O. Lourenço , M. Bhuyan , C. H. Lenzi , M. Dutra , C. Gonzalez-Boquera , M. Centelles , X. Viñas

Though individual stellar parameters of compact stars usually demonstrate obvious dependence on the equation of state (EOS), EOS-insensitive universal formulas relating these parameters remarkably exist. In the present paper, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 T. K. Chan , Y. -H. Sham , P. T. Leung , L. -M. Lin

In this present work, we suggest studying neutron star with a conformal coupling by using the analytical expressions of realistic equations of state. The equations of perturbed and nonperturbed metrics, scalar field and the pressure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Hamza Boumaza