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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 discovery of gravitational waves (GW) by Advanced LIGO has ushered us into an era of observational GW astrophysics. Compact binaries remain the primary target sources for LIGO, of which neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binaries form an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Prayush Kumar , Michael Pürrer , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Tidal dissipation in spinning compact binaries imprints characteristic corrections on the late-inspiral gravitational-wave signal. We develop a next-to-leading order post-Newtonian description of dissipative, electric-quadrupolar tides in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Anand Balivada , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Nicolás Yunes

Tidal deformability measures how NS can comfortably deform as a response to an applied tidal field. We use updated constraints on the mass, radius, and tidal deformability of neutron star (NS) objects and pulsars to examine nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 W. M. Seif , A. S. Hashem

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

The coalescence of two neutron stars is an important gravitational wave source for LIGO and other detectors. Numerous studies have considered the precision with which binary parameters (masses, spins, Love numbers) can be measured. Here I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-19 Marc Favata

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations from Neutron Stars (NS) in a binary system provide an excellent scenario to constrain the nuclear parameters. The investigation of Pratten et al. (2022) has shown that the ignorance of f-mode dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Tathagata Ghosh , Dhruv Pathak , Debarati Chatterjee

Tidal interactions in coalescing binary neutron stars modify the dynamics of the inspiral and hence imprint a signature on their gravitational wave (GW) signals in the form of an extra phase shift. We need accurate models for the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg , Phil Arras , James Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav

We study the tidal disruption of neutron stars in black hole-neutron star coalescing binaries. We calculate the critical orbital separation at which the star is disrupted by the black hole tidal field for several equations of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri , F. Pannarale

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

We discuss the response of neutron stars to the tidal interaction in a compact binary system, as encoded in the Love number associated with the induced deformation. This problem is of interest for gravitational-wave astronomy as there may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. J. Penner , N. Andersson , L. Samuelsson , I. Hawke , D. I. Jones

The agreement of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) deduced from the GW170817 based tidal deformability with the one obtained from empirical data on microscopic nuclei is examined. It is found that suitably chosen experimental data on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , C. Providência , C. Mondal , T. K. Jha

We study the resonant tidal excitation of g modes in coalescing superfluid neutron star (NS) binaries and investigate how such tidal driving impacts the gravitational-wave (GW) signal of the inspiral. Previous studies of this type treated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-06 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg

Within scalar-tensor (ST) theories, neutron stars in binary systems experience tidal deformations caused by both their companion and the scalar field. These deformations are strongly correlated to the star's internal structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Eve Dones , Laura Bernard

We investigate the measurement correlation between the effective spin and the effective tidal deformability in gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star mergers. To efficiently measure the effective tidal deformability parameter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Souradeep Pal , K Rajesh Nayak

Neutron star (NS) is a unique astronomical compact object where the four fundamental interactions have been revealed from the observation and studied in different ways. While the macroscopic properties of NS like mass and radius can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-04 Ngo Hai Tan , Dao T. Khoa , Doan Thi Loan

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

The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical systematics compared to neutron star radius measurements with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Zack Carson , Andrew W. Steiner , Kent Yagi

We study how to extract information on the neutron star equation of state from the gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of a binary system composed of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. We use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

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