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We present a robust method to characterize the gravitational wave emission from the remnant of a neutron star coalescence. Our approach makes only minimal assumptions about the morphology of the signal and provides a full posterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 Katerina Chatziioannou , James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Margaret Millhouse , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish

A number of works have shown that important information on the equation of state of matter at nuclear density can be extracted from the gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron-star binaries. We present a comprehensive analysis of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can constrain nuclear matter models predicting the neutron star's equation of state (EOS). Matter effects on the inspiral-merger signal are encoded in the multipolar tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Matteo Breschi , Gregorio Carullo , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Dynamical tidal deformations play a crucial role in the gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron star systems during their late inspiral. In this work, we systematically explore how relativistic (dynamical and dissipative) tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Yumu Yang , Mauricio Hippert , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Jorge Noronha , Nicolás Yunes

Recent detections by the gravitational wave facilities LIGO/Virgo have opened a window to study the internal structure of neutron stars through the gravitational waves emitted during their coalescence. In this work we explore, through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-26 Miguel Bezares , Daniele Viganò , Carlos Palenzuela

Neutron stars are known to host extremely powerful magnetic fields. Among other effects, one of the consequences of harbouring such fields is the deformation of the neutron star structure, leading, together with rotation, to the emission of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 J. Soldateschi , N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

Tidal forces cause inspiralling binary neutron stars to deform, leaving a measurable imprint on the gravitational waves they emit. The induced stellar multipoles are an added source of gravitational radiation and modify the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-07 Philippe Landry

In this paper, we study the behavior of a pair of co-orbital planets, both orbiting a central star on the same plane and undergoing tidal interactions. Our goal is to investigate final orbital configurations of the planets, initially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Adrián Rodríguez , Cristian A. Giuppone , Tatiana A. Michtchenko

We present the first set of numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron mergers that include spin precession effects and are evolved with multiple resolutions. Our simulations employ consistent initial data in general relativity with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy

We study the importance of hydrodynamic effects on the evolution of coalescing binary neutron stars. Using an approximate energy functional constructed from equilibrium solutions for polytropic binary configurations, we incorporate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Lai , F. A. Rasio , S. L. Shapiro

Dynamical tides of neutron stars in the late stages of binary inspirals provide a viable probe into dense matter through gravitational waves, and potentially trigger electromagnetic precursors. We model the tidal response as a set of driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Yong Gao , Hao-Jui Kuan , Cheng-Jun Xia , Hector O. Silva , Masaru Shibata

Neutron star (NS) binaries formed dynamically may have significant eccentricities while emitting gravitational waves (GWs) in the LIGO/VIRGO band. We study tidal effects in such eccentric inspiralling NS binaries using a set of hybrid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Jie-Shuang Wang , Dong Lai

Gravitational waves have been detected from the inspiral of a binary neutron-star, GW170817, which allowed constraints to be placed on the neutron star equation of state. The equation of state can be further constrained if gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Paul J. Easter , Paul D. Lasky , Andrew R. Casey , Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

Neutron star mergers are amongst the most promising sources for the joint detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals. They are also potential sites for the production of r-process elements and probes of the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Samantha Rath , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Neutron stars are compact, relativistic bodies that host several extremes of modern physics. An exciting development in recent years has been the opportunity to probe this exotic physics by observing compact-binary coalescences using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson , Shanshan Yin

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

The oscillation modes of neutron star (NS) merger remnants, as encoded by the kHz postmerger gravitational wave (GW) signal, hold great potential for constraining the as-yet undetermined equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Jamie Bamber , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

The flow inside remnants of binary neutron star (NS) mergers is expected to be turbulent, because of magnetohydrodynamics instability activated at scales too small to be resolved in simulations. To study the large-scale impact of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 David Radice

In this work, we estimate how much bulk viscosity driven by Urca processes is likely to affect the gravitational wave signal of a neutron star coalescence. In the late inspiral, we show that bulk viscosity affects the binding energy at…

In the violent post-merger of binary neutron-star mergers strong oscillations are present that impact the emitted gravitational-wave (GW) signal. The frequencies, temperatures and densities involved in these oscillations allow for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla