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We study the perturbations of a relatively close third star on a tidally distorted eccentric eclipsing binary. We consider both the observational consequences of the variations of the orbital elements and the interactions of the stellar…

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The tidally tilted pulsators are a new type of oscillating star in close binary systems that have their pulsation axis in the orbital plane because of the tidal distortion caused by their companion. We describe this group of stars on the…

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In this article, we focus on the effects of mass transfer between binary stars and stellar spin on the post-Newtonian (PN) orbital evolution and gravitational waveforms of compact binary systems. We employ the 2.5PN approximation and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-24 Yifan He , Jie Yang

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…

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In the context of neutron star mergers, we study the gravitational wave spectrum of the merger remnant using numerical relativity simulations. Postmerger spectra are characterized by a main peak frequency $f_2$ related to the particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tim Dietrich , Alessandro Nagar

We present numerical relativity simulations of nine-orbit equal-mass binary neutron star covering the quasicircular late inspiral and merger. The extracted gravitational waveforms are analyzed for convergence and accuracy. Second order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Marcus Thierfelder , Bernd Bruegmann

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 employ an approximate treatment of dissipative hydrodynamics in three dimensions to study the coalescence of binary neutron stars driven by the emission of gravitational waves. The stars are modeled as compressible ellipsoids obeying a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dong Lai , Stu Shapiro

The secular evolution of a spinning, massive binary system in eccentric orbit is analyzed, expanding and generalizing our previous treatments of the Lense-Thirring motion and the one-spin limit. The spin-orbit and spin-spin effects up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 László Á. Gergely , Zoltán I. Perjés , Mátyás Vasúth

We consider the dependence of the internal structure of a neutron star in a close binary system on the semi-major axis of the binary orbit, focusing on the case when the Roche lobes of the components are nearly filled. We adopt a polytropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Kuznetsov , M. E. Prokhorov , M. V. Sazhin , V. M. Chechetkin

This article describes a comparison of two calculations of the merger of a binary neutron star (NS) system which is initially within the tidal instability as described by Rasio and Shapiro. The same initial data is used with one simulation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Y. M. Wang , F. Douglas Swesty , Alan C. Calder

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

We investigate the dynamic stability of inspiraling neutron stars by performing multiple-orbit numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star inspiral process. By introducing eccentricities in the orbits of the neutron stars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Miller

Recent discovery of kilohertz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations of low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) has attracted attention to highly relativistic periodic motion near accreting neutron stars. Most models proposed so far involve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Draza Markovic

We perform new longterm (15-16 orbits) simulations of coalescing binary neutron stars in numerical relativity using an updated Einstein's equation solver, employing low-eccentricity initial data, and modeling the neutron stars by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-01 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata

Using an energy variational method, we calculate quasi-equilibrium configurations of binary neutron stars modeled as compressible triaxial ellipsoids obeying a polytropic equation of state. Our energy functional includes terms both for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James C. Lombardi , Frederic A. Rasio , Stuart L. Shapiro

Tidal effects have an important impact on the late inspiral of compact binary systems containing neutron stars. Most current models of tidal deformations of neutron stars assume that the tidal bulge is directly related to the tidal field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 Jan Steinhoff , Tanja Hinderer , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini

We present a rapid binary evolution algorithm that enables modelling of even the most complex binary systems. In addition to all aspects of single star evolution, features such as mass transfer, mass accretion, common-envelope evolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jarrod R. Hurley , Christopher A. Tout , Onno R. Pols

We study the tidal excitation of gravity modes (g-modes) in compact white dwarf binary systems with periods ranging from minutes to hours. As the orbit of the system decays via gravitational radiation, the orbital frequency increases and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-21 James Fuller , Dong Lai

We develop a method to compute low-eccentricity initial data of binary neutron stars required to perform realistic simulations in numerical relativity. The orbital eccentricity is controlled by adjusting the orbital angular velocity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi