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The very first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star binary merger, GW170817, exceeded all expectations. The event was relatively nearby, which may point to a relatively high merger rate. It was possible to extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Andreas Bauswein

Our knowledge about neutron star (NS) masses is renewed once again due to the recognition of the heaviest NS PSR J$ 0952-0607 $. By taking advantage of both mass observations of super massive neutron stars and the tidal deformability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 Lan Guo , YiFei Niu

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has expanded efforts to understand the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter. These measurements provide new constraints on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-24 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

The correlation of the tidal polarizabilities $\Lambda_1$-$\Lambda_2$ for GW170817 is predicted by combining dense-matter equations of state (EOSs) that satisfy nuclear physics constraints with the chirp mass and mass asymmetry for this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

Recently exploratory studies were performed on the possibility of constraining the neutron star equation of state (EOS) using signals from coalescing binary neutron stars, or neutron star-black hole systems, as they will be seen in upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-05 Michalis Agathos , Jeroen Meidam , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Marco Tompitak , John Veitch , Salvatore Vitale , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational waves detected from the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 constrained the NS equation of state by placing an upper bound on certain parameters describing the binary's tidal interactions. We show that the interpretation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-11 David Radice , Albino Perego , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

At present, the only experimental access to the properties of cold, dense strongly interacting matter is provided by astrophysical observations. Neutron stars are the only known systems in the Universe that reach densities several times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Gábor Kasza , János Takátsy , György Wolf

The recent direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers (2016, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, no. 6, 061102; no. 24, 241103) opens up an entirely new non-electromagnetic window into the Universe making it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

We apply Bayesian approach to construct a large number of minimally constrained equations of state (EOSs) and study their correlations with a few selected properties of a neutron star (NS). Our set of minimal constraints includes a few…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-26 N. K. Patra , Sk Md Adil Imam , B. K. Agrawal , Arunava Mukherjee , Tuhin Malik

We explore in a parameterized manner a very large range of physically plausible equations of state (EOSs) for compact stars for matter that is either purely hadronic or that exhibits a phase transition. In particular, we produce two classes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih , Luciano Rezzolla , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

The detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves provides unprecedented constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of the ultra-dense matter within the cores of neutron stars (NSs). We extend the nonparametric analysis first introduced in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Reed Essick , Philippe Landry , Daniel E. Holz

Matter state inside neutron stars is an exciting problem in astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics. The equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars plays a crucial role in the present multimessenger astronomy, especially after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-07 Zhen-Yu Zhu , En-Ping Zhou , Ang Li

Motivated by the unknown nature of the $2.50-2.67\,M_\odot$ compact object in the binary merger event GW190814, we study the maximum neutron star mass based on constraints from low-energy nuclear physics, neutron star tidal deformabilities…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Yeunhwan Lim , Anirban Bhattacharya , Jeremy W. Holt , Debdeep Pati

Very recently the NICER collaboration has published the first-ever accurate measurement of mass and radius together for PSR J0030+0451, a nearby isolated quickly-rotating neutron star (NS). In this work we set the joint constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Jin-Liang Jiang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

It is well known that the equation of state (EoS) of compact objects like neutron and quark stars is not determined despite there are several sophisticated models to describe it. From the electromagnetic observations, summarized in…

Observations of gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron-star mergers, like GW170817, can be used to constrain the neutron-star equation of state (EoS). One method involves modeling the EoS and measuring the model parameters through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Matthew F. Carney , Leslie E. Wade , Burke S. Irwin

We perform a joint Bayesian inference of neutron-star mass and radius constraints based on GW170817, observations of quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries (QLMXBs), photospheric radius expansion X-ray bursts (PREs), and X-ray timing…

We present a proof-of-concept study, based on numerical-relativity simulations, of how gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star merger remnants can probe the nature of matter at extreme densities. Phase transitions and extra degrees of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-16 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Walter Del Pozzo , Luke F. Roberts , Christian D. Ott

We investigate the constraints on the neutron star equation of state (EoS) and nuclear properties achievable with third-generation gravitational wave detectors using the Fisher information matrix approach within the relativistic mean field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhenyu Zhu , Richard O'Shaughnessy