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High-mass gravitational-wave events in the neutron-star mass range, such as GW190425, have recently started to be detected by the LIGO/Virgo detectors. If the masses of the two binary components fall in the neutron-star mass range, such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Elias R. Most , L. Jens Papenfort , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries produce gravitational-wave (GW) emission and outflows with significant kinetic energies. These outflows result in radio emissions through synchrotron radiation. We explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Kenta Hotokezaka , Samaya Nissanke , Gregg Hallinan , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers are expected to provide stringent constraints on the structure of neutron stars. At the same time, recent advances in nuclear theory have enabled reliable calculations of the low density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

GW170817 represents the first observed binary neutron star merger event by humanity. The observation of GW170817 has identified the correlation between Kilonova, gravitational wave and short GRB. The shocks from GW170817 have the capacity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-14 Menquan Liu , Jie Zhang , Cong Wang

Two binary neutron star mergers, GW170817 and GW190425, have been detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. These signals were detected by matched-filter searches that assume the star's orbit has circularized by the time their gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Amber K. Lenon , Alexander H. Nitz , Duncan A. Brown

Neutron star (binary neutron star and neutron star - black hole) mergers are believed to produce short-duration gamma-ray bursts. They are also believed to be the dominant source of gravitational waves to be detected by the advanced LIGO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 Chris L. Fryer , Krzysztoff Belczynski , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Stephan Rosswog , Gang Shen , Andrew W. Steiner

The exciting development of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy in the correlation of LIGO and VIRGO detection of GW signals makes possible to expect registration of effects of not only Binary Black Hole (BH) coalescence, but also Binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-25 Daniele Fargion , Maxim Khlopov , Pietro Oliva

Recent gravitational wave observations include possible detections of black hole - neutron star binary mergers. As with binary black hole mergers, numerical simulations help characterize the sources. For binary systems with neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-16 Bing-Jyun Tsao , Bhavesh Khamesra , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Pablo Laguna

The recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral event GW170817 and the discovery of its accompanying electromagnetic signals mark a new era for multimessenger astronomy. In the coming years,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane , Stefan Osłowski , Yuri Levin , Paul D. Lasky

(Abridged) While the gravitational-wave (GW) signal GW170817 was accompanied by a variety of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, sufficiently high-mass binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are expected to be unable to power bright EM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 An Chen , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Tim Dietrich , Reetika Dudi

With the discovery of both binary black hole mergers and a binary neutron star merger the field of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics has really begun. The current advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors are laser interferometers that will improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Gijs Nelemans

Black hole-neutron star mergers resulting in the disruption of the neutron star and the formation of an accretion disk and/or the ejection of unbound material are prime candidates for the joint detection of gravitational-wave and…

The first detection of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 has started to provide important new constraints on the nuclear equation of state at high density. The tidal deformability bound of GW170817…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Rana Nandi , Prasanta Char , Subrata Pal

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration recently reported a puzzling event, GW190814, with component masses of 23 and 2.6 solar masses. Motivated by the relatively small rate of such a coalescence and the fact that the mass of the secondary is close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Wenbin Lu , Paz Beniamini , Clément Bonnerot

We revisit the constraint on the maximum mass of cold spherical neutron stars coming from the observational results of GW170817. We develop a new framework for the analysis by employing both energy and angular momentum conservation laws as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Masaru Shibata , Enping Zhou , Kenta Kiuchi , Sho Fujibayashi

Using data from 289 numerical relativity simulations of merging binary neutron stars, we identify, for the first time, a robust quasi-universal relation connecting the postmerger peak gravitational-wave frequency and the value of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Daniel Godzieba , Albino Perego , David Radice

Merging binary neutron stars are thought to be formed predominantly via isolated binary evolution. In this standard formation scenario, the first-born neutron star goes through a recycling process and might be rapidly spinning during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-09 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Gregory Ashton

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-03 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor , INTEGRAL

Remnants of neutron-star mergers are essentially massive, hot, differentially rotating neutron stars, which are initially strongly oscillating. They represent a unique probe for high-density matter because the oscillations are detectable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Hans-Thomas Janka

We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35 Msun, using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration