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Spinning neutron stars, when observed as pulsars, are seen to undergo occasional spin-up events known as glitches. Despite several decades of study, the physical mechanisms responsible for glitches are still not well understood, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Brynmor Haskell , David Ian Jones

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

High-Frequency Gravitational Waves (HFGWs) constitute a unique window on the early Universe as well as exotic astrophysical objects. If the current gravitational wave experiments are more dedicated to the low frequency regime, the graviton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-29 Virgile Dandoy , Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Francesco Costa

It has recently been claimed, with a $4.2 \sigma$ significance level, that gravitational wave echoes at a frequency of about $72$ Hz have been produced in the GW170817 event. The merging of compact stars can lead to the emission of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Massimo Mannarelli , Francesco Tonelli

Context. Gravitational waves (GW) provide a unique probe of the explosion mechanism of massive stars and the evolution of nascent proto-neutron stars (PNS). Magnetorotational explosions are one of the promising non-canonical core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Shota Shibagaki , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Takami Kuroda , Tobias Fischer

We discuss possible implications of the recent detection by the LIGO and VIRGO collaboration of the gravitational-wave event GW170817, the signal of which is consistent with predictions in general relativity on the merging of neutron stars.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Andrea Addazi , Antonino Marciano

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, gravitational-wave astronomy has emerged as a rapidly advancing field that holds great potential for studying the cosmos, from probing the properties of black holes to testing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Anna Liu , Isaac C. F. Wong , Samson H. W. Leong , Anupreeta More , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Neutron stars are a remarkable marriage of Einstein's theory of general relativity with nuclear physics. Their interiors harbor extreme matter that cannot be probed in the laboratory. At such high densities and pressures, their cores may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-10 Nicolas Yunes , M. Coleman Miller , Kent Yagi

The collapse of massive stars not only produces observable outbursts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum but, for Galactic (or near-Galactic) supernovae, detectable signals for ground-based neutrino and gravitational wave detectors.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Chris L. Fryer , Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes

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

The recent direct observation of gravitational wave event $GW170817$ and its $GRB170817A$ signal has opened up a new window to study neutron stars and heralds a new era of Astronomy referred to as the Multimessenger Astronomy. Both…

The nascent field of gravitational-wave astronomy offers many opportunities for effective and inspirational astronomy outreach. Gravitational waves, the "ripples in space-time" predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity, are…

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has provided a new tool to study the Universe, with the scientific return enriched when combined with established probes: electromagnetic (EM) radiation and energetic particles. Since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-25 Matt Nicholl , Igor Andreoni

A new experiment for the gravitational waves (GWs) detection is proposed. It is indeed shown that the effect of GWs on sound waves (SWs) in a fluid is that GWs vary the pressure of the fluid by crossing it. This variation can be found by…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Basem Ghayour , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Christian Corda , Ming-Lei Tong , Ali Ghayour

We present new results for pulsating stars in general relativity. First we show that the so-called gravitational-wave modes of a neutron star can be excited when a gravitational wave impinges on the star. Numerical simulations suggest that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Nils Andersson , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Gravitational wave bursters are sources which emit repeatedly bursts of gravitational waves, and have been recently suggested as potentially interesting candidates for gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Mechanisms that could give rise to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Dubath , Stefano Foffa , Maria Alice Gasparini , Michele Maggiore , Riccardo Sturani

Various models for electromagnetic emissions correlated with the gravitational wave signals expected to be detectable by the current and planned gravitational wave detectors are studied. The position error on the location of a gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Sylvestre

Gravitational waves act like lenses for the light propagating through them. This phenomenon is described using the vector formalism employed for ordinary gravitational lenses, which was proved to be applicable also to a non-stationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Valerio Faraoni

With the detection of Gravitational waves just about an year ago Einstein`s general theory of relativity- a space-time theory of gravity, got established on a firmer footing than any other theory in physics. Gravitational waves are just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 A. R. Prasanna

Stellar collapse and the subsequent development of a core-collapse supernova explosion emit bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) that might be detected by the advanced generation of laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Logue , C. D. Ott , I. S. Heng , P. Kalmus , J. Scargill