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We perform fully relativistic calculations of binary neutron stars in corotating, circular orbit. While Newtonian gravity allows for a strict equilibrium, a relativistic binary system emits gravitational radiation, causing the system to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 T. W. Baumgarte , G. B. Cook , M. A. Scheel , S. L. Shapiro , S. A. Teukolsky

Using nonlinear, fully relativistic, simulations we investigate the dynamics and gravitational-wave signature associated with instabilities in neutron star postmerger remnants. For simplified models of the remnant we establish the presence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Xiaoyi Xie , Ian Hawke , Andrea Passamonti , Nils Andersson

Non radial oscillations of neutron stars are associated with the emission of gravitational waves. The characteristic frequencies of these oscillations can be computed using the theory of stellar perturbations, and they are shown to carry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 Valeria Ferrari

We present computed spectra, as seen by a distant observer, from the accretion disc around a rapidly rotating neutron star. Our calculations are carried out in a fully general relativistic framework, with exact treatment of rotation. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudip Bhattacharyya , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Arun V. Thampan

Highly magnetized neutron stars are promising candidates to explain some of the most peculiar astronomical phenomena, for instance, fast radio bursts, gamma-ray bursts, and superluminous supernovae. Pulsations of these highly magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-13 Man Yin Leung , Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Non-radial oscillation modes of a neutron star possess valuable information about its internal structure and nuclear physics. Starting from the quadrupolar order, such modes under general relativity are known as quasi-normal modes since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Shu Yan Lau , Siddarth Ajith , Victor Guedes , Kent Yagi

In the present paper we investigate self-consistently slowly rotating neutron and strange stars in R-squared gravity. For this purpose we first derive the equations describing the structure of the slowly rotating compact stars in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We provide a bird's-eye view of neutron-star seismology, which aims to probe the extreme physics associated with these objects, in the context of gravitational-wave astronomy. Focussing on the fundamental mode of oscillation, which is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-19 N. Andersson

We study the oscillations of relativistic stars, incorporating key physics associated with internal composition, thermal gradients and crust elasticity. Our aim is to develop a formalism which is able to account for the state-of-the-art…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 C. J. Krüger , W. C. G. Ho , N. Andersson

We provide accurate universal relations that allow to estimate the moment of inertia $I$ and the ratio of kinetic to gravitational binding energy $T/W$ of uniformly rotating neutron stars from the knowledge of mass, radius, and moment of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Christian J. Krüger , Sebastian H. Völkel

We construct the first dynamically stable ergostars (equilibrium neutron stars that contain an ergoregion) for a compressible, causal equation of state. We demonstrate their stability by evolving both strict and perturbed equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Lunan Sun , Stuart L. Shapiro , Kōji Uryū

In this work, we study the impact of anisotropy on slowly rotating neutron stars by extending the Hartle-Thorne formalism in general relativity to include anisotropy in pressure up to second order in the angular velocity. We assess the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 L. M. Becerra , E. A. Becerra-Vergara , F. D. Lora-Clavijo

The spectrum of radial oscillations of neutron stars is systematically studied within two frameworks of viscous relativistic hydrodynamics: the relativistic Navier-Stokes and Israel-Stewart theories. A correspondence is established between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Raissa F. P. Mendes , Amanda Guerrieri , João V. M. Muniz , Gabriel S. Rocha , Gabriel S. Denicol

As some of the most compact stellar objects in the universe, neutron stars are unique cosmic laboratories. The study of neutron stars provides an ideal theoretical testbed for investigating both physics at supra-nuclear densities as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-29 Grigorios Papigkiotis , George Pappas

Starobinsky gravity, as one of the simplest and best-behaved higher-curvature gravity theories, has been extensively studied in the context of neutron stars over the past few decades. In this work, we investigate the adiabatic radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Ziyi Li , Zhong-Xi Yu , Zhe Luo , Shoulong Li , Hongwei Yu

The frequencies of quasi-periodic oscillations around neutron stars are believed to be related to characteristic frequencies in the gravitational fields of the compact objects. In different variability models, these include the Keplerian,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon DeDeo , Dimitrios Psaltis

We investigate the effects of general relativity upon the non-axisymmetric ``bar'' mode secular instability of rapidly rotating stars, i.e. the relativistic and compressible analog of the transition from Maclaurin spheroids to Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Bonazzola , J. Frieben , E. Gourgoulhon

Neutron stars are highly compact astrophysical objects and therefore of utmost relevance to learn about theories of gravity. Whereas the proper equation of state of the nuclear matter inside neutron stars is not yet known, and a wide range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 Jutta Kunz

We calculate the disk and boundary layer luminosities for accreting rapidly rotating neutron stars with low magnetic fields in a fully general relativistic manner. Rotation increases the disk luminosity and decreases the boundary layer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arun V. Thampan , Bhaskar Datta

Properties of rotating neutron stars with the use of relativistic mean-field theory are considered. The performed analysis of neutron star matter is based on the nonlinear Lgrangian density. The presence of nonlinear interaction of vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Ilona Bednarek , Ryszard Manka