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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

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

Quasi-universal relations are known to exist among various neutron star observables that do not depend sensitively on the underlying nuclear matter equations of state. For example, some of these relations imply that the tidally induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Takuya Katagiri , Gowtham Rishi Mukkamala , Kent Yagi

We review the current status of studies of the coalescence of binary neutron star systems. We begin with a discussion of the formation channels of merging binaries and we discuss the most recent theoretical predictions for merger rates.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio

Universal relations independently of the equation of state (EOS) for neutron star matter are valuable, if they exist, for extracting the neutron star properties, which generally depend on the EOS. In this study, we newly derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Hajime Sotani , Bharat Kumar

We construct new, multivariate empirical relations for measuring neutron star radii and tidal deformabilities from the dominant gravitational wave frequency in the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers. The relations determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Stamatis Vretinaris , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Andreas Bauswein

This work is the first in a series of studies aimed at understanding the dynamics of highly eccentric binary neutron stars, and constructing an appropriate gravitational-waveform model for detection. Such binaries are possible sources for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Huan Yang , William E. East , Vasileios Paschalidis , Frans Pretorius , Raissa F. P. Mendes

We have calculated evolution of neutron star binaries towards the coalescence driven by gravitational radiation. The hydrodynamical effects as well as the general relativistic effects are important in the final phase. All corrections up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Ogawaguchi , Y. Kojima

Gravitational-wave observations in the near future may allow us to measure tidal deformabilities of neutron stars, which leads us to the understanding of physics at nuclear density. In principle, the gravitational waveform depends on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Kent Yagi

Spin can have significant effects on the electromagnetic transients accompanying binary neutron star mergers. The measurement of spin can provide important information about binary formation channels. In the absence of a strong neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-18 William E. East , Vasileios Paschalidis , Frans Pretorius , Antonios Tsokaros

The merger remnant of a binary neutron star coalescence is initially strongly differentially rotating. Some properties of these remnants can be accurately modeled through building equilibrium neutron star models. In the present paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Lavinia Heisenberg , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this present work, we suggest studying neutron star with a conformal coupling by using the analytical expressions of realistic equations of state. The equations of perturbed and nonperturbed metrics, scalar field and the pressure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Hamza Boumaza

We discuss the role of dynamical tidal effects for inspiralling neutron star binaries, focussing on features that may be considered "unmodelled" in gravitational-wave searches. In order to cover the range of possibilities, we consider i)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 N. Andersson , W. C. G. Ho

The gravitational waves produced by binary neutron star mergers offer a unique window into matter behavior under extreme conditions. In this context, we model analytically the effect of matter on the gravitational waves from binary neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Alexander O'Dell , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

Observations of neutron star mergers have the potential to unveil detailed physics of matter and gravity in regimes inaccessible by other experiments. Quantitative comparisons to theory and parameter estimation require nonlinear numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 David Radice , Ian Hawke

We present an effective, low-dimensionality frequency-domain template for the gravitational wave signal from the stellar remnants from binary neutron star coalescence. A principal component decomposition of a suite of numerical simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Deirdre Shoemaker

Despite their long history and astrophysical importance, some of the key properties of neutron stars are still uncertain. The extreme conditions encountered in their interiors, involving matter of uncertain composition at extreme density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-13 Katerina Chatziioannou

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

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