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Modelled searches for gravitational waves emitted by compact binary coalescences currently filter the data with template signals that ignore all effects related to the physics of dense-matter in neutron stars interiors, even when the masses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Lorenzo Piccari , Francesco Pannarale

Inference of the equation-of-state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter in neutron-star cores is a principal science goal of X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. In particular, gravitational-wave observations provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rahul Kashyap , Arnab Dhani , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors may be able to constrain the nuclear equation of state using the early, low frequency portion of the signal of detected neutron star - neutron star inspirals. In this early adiabatic regime, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Eanna E. Flanagan , Tanja Hinderer

Gravitational wave observations can potentially measure properties of neutron star equations of state by measuring departures from the point-particle limit of the gravitational waveform produced in the late inspiral of a neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-19 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman , Benjamin D. Lackey

The properties of neutron star matter above nuclear density are not precisely known. Gravitational waves emitted from binary neutron stars during their late stages of inspiral and merger contain imprints of the neutron-star equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman

We study the tidal deformability of bare quark stars and hybrid compact stars composed of a quark matter core in general relativity, assuming that the deconfined quark matter exists in a crystalline color superconducting phase. We find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-07 S. Y. Lau , P. T. Leung , L. -M. Lin

We study how the neutron-star equation of state affects the onset of the dynamical instability in the equations of motion for inspiraling neutron-star binaries near coalescence. A combination of relativistic effects and Newtonian tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Dong Lai , Alan G. Wiseman

We use gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observations of GW170817 to constrain the extent of pressure anisotropy in it. While it is quite likely that the pressure inside a neutron star is mostly isotropic, certain physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Bhaskar Biswas , Sukanta Bose

The tidal deformation of a neutron star in a binary inspiral driven by the emission of gravitational waves affects the orbital dynamics and produces a measurable modulation of the waves. Late in the inspiral, a regime of dynamical tides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Tristan Pitre , Eric Poisson

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

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

We study the importance of hydrodynamic effects on the evolution of coalescing binary neutron stars. Using an approximate energy functional constructed from equilibrium solutions for polytropic binary configurations, we incorporate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Lai , F. A. Rasio , S. L. Shapiro

The coupling between the angular momentum of a compact object and an external tidal field gives rise to the "rotational" tidal Love numbers, which affect the tidal deformability of a spinning self-gravitating body and enter the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Gonçalo Castro , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

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

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

Recently, an instability due to the nonlinear coupling of p-modes to g-modes in tidally deformed neutron stars in coalescing binaries has been studied in some detail. The result is significant because it could influence the inspiral and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Yixiao Zhou , Fan Zhang

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

We present a Bayesian analysis to constrain the equation of state of dense nucleonic matter by exploiting the available data from symmetric nuclear matter at saturation and from observations of compact X-ray sources and from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-23 Silvia Traversi , Prasanta Char , Giuseppe Pagliara

Neutron star observables like masses, radii, and tidal deformability are direct probes to the dense matter equation of state~(EoS). A novel deep learning method that optimizes an EoS in the automatic differentiation framework of solving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Shriya Soma , Lingxiao Wang , Shuzhe Shi , Horst Stöcker , Kai Zhou

Gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron stars carry information about matter at extreme gravity and density. The binary neutron star (BNS) event GW170817 provided, for the first time, insight into dense matter through this window.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-21 Anjali B. Yelikar , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Leslie Wade