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The neutron star tidal deformability is a critical parameter which determines the pre-merger gravitational-wave signal in a neutron star merger. In this article, we show how neutron star tidal deformabilities behave in the presence of one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Sophia Han , Andrew W. Steiner

Gravitational waves emitted in the late inspiral of binary neutron stars are affected by their tidal deformation. We study the tidal dynamics in full general relativity through matched-asymptotic expansions and prove that the dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Abhishek Hegade K. R. , K. J. Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Hang Yu , Nicolás Yunes

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

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

Observations of heavy (${\simeq}2\,M_\odot$) neutron stars in addition to the recent measurement of tidal deformability from the binary neutron-star merger GW170817, place interesting constraints on theories of dense matter. Current and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 M. Sieniawska , M. Bejger , B. Haskell

We study the orbital evolution of eccentric binary neutron stars. The orbit is described as a Quasi-Keplarian orbit with perturbations due to tidal couplings. We find that the tidal interaction between stars contributes to orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Huan Yang

The gravitational wave signal from an inspiralling binary neutron star system will contain detailed information about tidal coupling in the system, and thus, about the internal physics of the neutron stars. To extract this information will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Justin Vines , Tanja Hinderer , Éanna É. Flanagan

GW170817 has provided valuable constraints on the equations of state of merging binary neutron stars, which can be considered as the most probable candidate for the source of gravitational waves. On the other hand, these natural…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-22 Z. Sharifi , M. Bigdeli , D. Alvarez-Castillo

Resonant excitations of $f$-modes in binary neutron star coalescences influence the gravitational waves (GWs) emission in both quasicircular and highly eccentric mergers and can deliver information on the star interior. Most models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Astronomical observations place increasingly tighter and more diverse constraints on the properties of neutron stars (NS). Examples include observations of radio or gamma-ray pulsars, accreting neutron stars and x-ray bursts, magnetar giant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 Wolfgang Kastaun , Frank Ohme

Tidal effects in gravitational-wave (GW) observations from binary neutron star mergers have the potential to probe ultra-dense matter and shed light on the unknown nuclear equation of state of neutron stars. Tidal effects in inspiralling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Natalie Williams , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

The Love numbers of a gravitating body are response coefficients encoding its tidal deformability. In compact binary systems, they appear in the gravitational waveform during the inspiral phase and will be measurable by upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 María J. Rodríguez , Luca Santoni , Adam R. Solomon

In compact white dwarf (WD) binary systems (with periods ranging from minutes to hours), dynamical tides involving the excitation and dissipation of gravity waves play a dominant role in determining the physical conditions of the WDs prior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jim Fuller , Dong Lai

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of compact binaries have the potential to unlock several remarkable applications in astrophysics, cosmology, and nuclear physics through accurate measurements of the source luminosity distance and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Adriano Frattale Mascioli , Francesco Crescimbeni , Costantino Pacilio , Paolo Pani , Francesco Pannarale

According to the theoretical study, a deformation object (e.g., a spinning non-axisymmetric pulsar star) will radiate a gravitational wave (GW) signal during an accelaration motion process by LIGO science project. These types of disturbance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Jinzhong Liu , Yu Zhang

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars were recently detected for the first time by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, in event GW170817. This detection placed an upper limit on the effective tidal deformability of the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Carolyn Raithel , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

Tidal and tidal-resonant effects in coalescing compact binary systems are investigated by direct numerical integration of the equations of motion. For the stars polytropic models are used. The tidal effects are found to be dominated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Gerhard Schaefer

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

Tidal interactions can play an important role as compact white dwarf (WD) binaries are driven together by gravitational waves (GWs). This will modify the strain evolution measured by future space-based GW detectors and impact the potential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Anthony L. Piro