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One of largest uncertainties in nuclear physics is the relation between the pressure and density of supranuclear matter: the equation of state. Some of this uncertainty may be removed through future gravitational wave observations of…

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Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are capable of measuring tidal influences in binary neutron-star systems. In this work, we report on the statistical uncertainties in measuring tidal deformability with a full Bayesian…

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We study the implications of the recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by a pair of merging neutron stars and their electromagnetic counterpart, events GW170817 and GRB170817A, on the viability of the doubly coupled bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Yashar Akrami , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Valeri Vardanyan

Gravitational wave observations can potentially measure properties of neutron star equations of state by measuring departures from the point-particle limit of the gravitational waveform produced in the late inspiral of a neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-19 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman , Benjamin D. Lackey

The tidal deformability probability distribution extracted from GW170817 alone, or including multi-messenger information, is confronted to astrophysical and nuclear physics additional constraints within a semi-agnostic approach for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-31 H. Güven , K. Bozkurt , E. Khan , J. Margueron

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

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

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

During the inspiral of a binary neutron star, viscous processes in the neutron star matter can damp out the tidal energy induced by its companion and convert it to thermal energy. This tidal dissipation/heating process introduces a net…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Suprovo Ghosh , Samanwaya Mukherjee , Sukanta Bose , Debarati Chatterjee

The first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) and the accompanying electromagnetic emission has impressively advanced our understanding of the merger process and has set some first constraints on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The early part of the gravitational wave signal of binary neutron star inspirals can potentially yield robust information on the nuclear equation of state. The influence of a star's internal structure on the waveform is characterized by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-28 Tanja Hinderer , Benjamin D. Lackey , Ryan N. Lang , Jocelyn S. Read

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

Gravitational Waves (GWs) from coalescing binaries carry crucial information about their component sources, like mass, spin and tidal effects. This implies that the analysis of GW signals from binary neutron star mergers can offer unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Shriya Soma , Horst Stöcker , Kai Zhou

Neutron star equations of state with strong phase transitions may support twin stars, hybrid and hadronic stars with the same mass but different tidal deformabilities. The presence of twin stars in the population of merging neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-20 Philippe Landry , Kabir Chakravarti

Extracting the properties of a binary system emitting gravitational waves relies on models describing the last stages of the compact binary coalescence. In this article, we study potential biases inherent to current tidal waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich

Gravitational waves from the collision of binary neutron stars provide a unique opportunity to study the behaviour of supranuclear matter, the fundamental properties of gravity, and the cosmic history of our Universe. However, given the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Gregory Ashton , Tim Dietrich

Neutron star is the ultimate testing place for the physics of dense nuclear matter. Before the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, various nuclear equations of state have been used to estimate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Young-Min Kim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Hana Gil , Chang-Hwan Lee

The first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (NS) inspiral GW170817 has opened a unique channel for probing the fundamental properties of matter at supra-nuclear densities inaccessible elsewhere in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-03 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Tanja Hinderer

Gravitational waves from neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers that undergo tidal disruption provide a potential avenue to study the equation of state of neutron stars and hence the behaviour of matter at its most extreme densities. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Teagan A. Clarke , Lani Chastain , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Gravitational wave measurements of binary neutron star coalescences offer information about the properties of the extreme matter that comprises the stars. Despite our expectation that all neutron stars in the Universe obey the same equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Carl-Johan Haster , Aaron Zimmerman