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Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star coalescences constrain the neutron-star equation of state by enabling measurement of the tidal deformation of each neutron star. This deformation is determined by the tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

Gravitational waves (GWs) from inspiralling neutron stars afford us a unique opportunity to infer the as-of-yet unknown equation of state of cold hadronic matter at supranuclear densities. During the inspiral, the dominant matter effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Natalie Williams

The spacetime surrounding compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes provides an excellent place to study gravity in the strong, non-linear, dynamical regime. Here, the effects of strong curvature can leave their imprint on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Alexander Saffer , Kent Yagi

Tidal interactions in coalescing binary neutron stars modify the dynamics of the inspiral and hence imprint a signature on their gravitational wave (GW) signals in the form of an extra phase shift. We need accurate models for the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg , Phil Arras , James Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav

When in a tight binary, the mutual tidal deformations of neutron stars imprint onto observables, encoding information about their internal structure at supranuclear densities and gravity in the extreme-gravity regime. Gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

A set of equations of state obtained from finite-range Gogny forces and momentum-dependent interactions is used to investigate the recent observation of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 event. For this set of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 O. Lourenço , M. Bhuyan , C. H. Lenzi , M. Dutra , C. Gonzalez-Boquera , M. Centelles , X. Viñas

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

With the remarkable advent of gravitational-wave astronomy, we have shed light on previously shrouded events: compact binary coalescences. Neutron stars are promising (and confirmed) sources of gravitational radiation and it proves timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Fabian Gittins

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

We introduce a phenomenological, physically motivated, model for the effective tidal deformability of a neutron star, adding the frequency dependence (associated with the star's fundamental mode of oscillation) that comes into play during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 N. Andersson , P. Pnigouras

The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the neutron star binary inspiral GW170817 has opened a unique avenue to probe matter and fundamental interactions in previously unexplored regimes. Extracting information on neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-07 Patricia Schmidt , Tanja Hinderer

The agreement of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) deduced from the GW170817 based tidal deformability with the one obtained from empirical data on microscopic nuclei is examined. It is found that suitably chosen experimental data on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , C. Providência , C. Mondal , T. K. Jha

In the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a compact binary coalescence system where the mass of one of the companions is $\leq 5~M_{\odot}$ the nature of the object is ambiguous until the measurements of tidal effects give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-20 Shubhanshu Tiwari , Michael Ebersold , Eleanor Z. Hamilton

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

Measurements of the properties of binary neutron star systems from gravitational-wave observations require accurate theoretical models for such signals. However, current models are incomplete, as they do not take into account all of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Reetika Dudi , Francesco Pannarale , Tim Dietrich , Mark Hannam , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Frank Ohme , Bernd Bruegmann

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences are valuable for testing theories of gravity in the strong field regime. By measuring neutron star tidal deformability using gravitational waves from binary neutron stars, stringent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Stephanie M. Brown

Combining new gravitational waveforms derived by long-term (14--16 orbits) numerical-relativity simulations with waveforms by an effective-one-body (EOB) formalism for coalescing binary neutron stars, we construct hybrid waveforms and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We study the impact of out-of-equilibrium, dissipative effects on the dynamics of inspiraling neutron stars. We find that modeling dissipative processes (such as those from the stars internal effective fluid viscosity) requires that one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Justin L. Ripley , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Nicolas Yunes

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

One of the main goals of gravitational-wave astrophysics is to study gravity in the strong-field regime and constrain deviations from general relativity (GR). Any such deviation affects not only binary dynamics and gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Stephanie M. Brown , Badri Krishnan , Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews