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Finite size effects come into play during the late stages of neutron star binary inspiral, with the tidal deformability of the supranuclear density matter leaving an imprint on the gravitational-wave signal. As demonstrated in the case of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 N. Andersson , P. Pnigouras

We calculate neutron star's moment of inertia and deformabilities using various microscopic equations of state for nuclear and hybrid star configurations. Correlations between the various observables are examined and we confirm several…

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Neutron stars are extremely relativistic objects which abound in our universe and yet are poorly understood, due to the high uncertainty on how matter behaves in the extreme conditions which prevail in the stellar core. It has recently been…

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The moment of inertia, the spin-induced quadrupole moment, and the tidal Love number of neutron-star and quark-star models are related through some relations which depend only mildly on the stellar equation of state. These "I-Love-Q"…

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Observations of neutron stars and the precise measurement of their macroscopic properties have provided valuable insights into fundamental physics, both by constraining the behavior of nuclear matter under extreme conditions and by enabling…

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Quasi-universal relations are known to exist among various neutron star observables that do not depend sensitively on the underlying nuclear matter equations of state. For example, some of these relations imply that the tidally induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Takuya Katagiri , Gowtham Rishi Mukkamala , Kent Yagi

Neutron star is the ultimate testing place for the physics of dense nuclear matter. Before the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, various nuclear equations of state have been used to estimate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Young-Min Kim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Hana Gil , Chang-Hwan Lee

The first detection of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 has started to provide important new constraints on the nuclear equation of state at high density. The tidal deformability bound of GW170817…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Rana Nandi , Prasanta Char , Subrata Pal

We investigate the constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars by considering the tidal deformability in the merge of neutron star binaries. In order to extract the most reliable range of uncertainty from theory, we employ models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Young-Min Kim , Yeunhwan Lim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

Equation of state (EOS) insensitive relations, so-called universal relations, between the neutron star (NS) compactness, its multipolar tidal deformability coefficients, and between the tidal parameters for binary systems are essential to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Daniel A. Godzieba , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The physical significance of tidal deformation in astronomical systems has long been known. The recently discovered universal I-Love-Q relations, which connect moment of inertia, quadrupole tidal Love number, and spin-induced quadrupole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Kenny L. S. Yip , P. T. Leung

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star coalescences constrain the neutron-star equation of state by enabling measurement of the tidal deformation of each neutron star. This deformation is determined by the tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

Quasi-universal relations connecting the tidal deformability and the quadrupole moment of individual neutron stars are predicted by theoretical computations, but have not been measured experimentally. However, such relations are employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich

Using a Bayesian approach, we combine measurements of neutron star macroscopic observables obtained by astrophysical and gravitational observations, to derive joint constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of matter at supranuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Margherita Fasano , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

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

Despite the large uncertainties in the equation of state for neutron stars (NSs), a tight universal ``Love-Q'' relation exists between their dimensionless tidal deformability, $\Lambda$, and the dimensionless quadrupole moment, $Q$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhihao Zheng , Ziming Wang , Jinwen Deng , Yiming Dong , Lijing Shao

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 distance-inclination degeneracy limits gravitational-wave parameter estimation of compact binary mergers. Although the degeneracy can be partially broken by including higher-order modes or precession, these effects are suppressed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 Yiqi Xie , Deep Chatterjee , Gilbert Holder , Daniel E. Holz , Scott Perkins , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

The tidal deformability probability distribution extracted from GW170817 alone, or including multi-messenger information, is confronted to astrophysical and nuclear physics additional constraints within a semi-agnostic approach for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-31 H. Güven , K. Bozkurt , E. Khan , J. Margueron

The early part of the gravitational wave signal of binary neutron star inspirals can potentially yield robust information on the nuclear equation of state. The influence of a star's internal structure on the waveform is characterized by a…

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