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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

Gravitational-wave signals from coalescing binary neutron stars can yield important information about the properties of nuclear-matter equation of state from the early part of the signal through tidal effects to the properties and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-13 Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Lap-Ming Lin , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Observations of gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by coalescing binary neutron stars (NS), like the GW event GW170817, can be exploited to constrain the equation of state (EoS) of matter in the stars' inner core. The information on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-02 Tiziano Abdelsalhin

The neutron star tidal deformability is a critical parameter which determines the pre-merger gravitational-wave signal in a neutron star merger. In this article, we show how neutron star tidal deformabilities behave in the presence of one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Sophia Han , Andrew W. Steiner

We present an effective, low-dimensionality frequency-domain template for the gravitational wave signal from the stellar remnants from binary neutron star coalescence. A principal component decomposition of a suite of numerical simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Deirdre Shoemaker

The discovery of gravitational waves (GW) by Advanced LIGO has ushered us into an era of observational GW astrophysics. Compact binaries remain the primary target sources for LIGO, of which neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binaries form an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Prayush Kumar , Michael Pürrer , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Gravitational-wave astronomy shows great promise in determining nuclear physics in a regime not accessible to terrestrial experiments. We introduce physics-informed priors constrained by nuclear theory and perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Spencer J. Magnall , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla , Paul D. Lasky , Simon R. Goode

We present a physics-informed Bayesian neural-network framework to infer neutron-star equations of state from theoretical priors and to propagate the associated uncertainties to stellar observables. Trained on a large and representative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 J. D. Baker , C. A. Bertulani , R. V. Lobato

The observation of GW170817, the first binary neutron star merger observed in both gravitational waves (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) waves, kickstarted the age of multi-messenger GW astronomy. This new technique presents an observationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Geoffrey Mo , Rahul Jayaraman , Danielle Frostig , Michael M. Fausnaugh , Erik Katsavounidis , George R. Ricker

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

On August 17, 2017 at 12:41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The signal, GW170817, was detected with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-17 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , The Virgo Collaboration

The upper bound of the speed of sound in dense nuclear matter is one of the most interesting but still unsolved problems in Nuclear Physics. Theoretical studies in connection with recent observational data of isolated neutron stars as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 A. Kanakis-Pegios , P. S. Koliogiannis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Explaining gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers requires an understanding of matter beyond nuclear saturation density. Our current knowledge of the properties of high-density matter relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Giuseppe Rivieccio , Davide Guerra , Milton Ruiz , José A. Font

Relative binning is a new method for fast and accurate evaluation of the likelihood of gravitational wave strain data. This technique can be used to produce reliable posterior distributions for compact object mergers with very moderate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-03 Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay

The coalescence of a neutron-star binary is likely to result in the formation of a neutron-star merger remnant for a large range of binary mass configurations. The massive merger remnant shows strong oscillations, which are excited by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 A. Bauswein , J. Clark , N. Stergioulas , H. -T. Janka

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

The coincident detection of a gravitational-wave (GW) event GW170817 with electromagnetic (EM) signals (e.g., a short gamma-ray burst SGRB 170817A or a macronova) from a binary neutron star merger within the nearby galaxy NGC 4933 provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Jun-Jie Wei , Bin-Bin Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Particles with strangeness content are predicted to populate dense matter, modifying the equation of state of matter inside neutron stars as well as their structure and evolution. In this work, we show how the modeling of strangeness…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 R. O. Gomes , Prasanta Char , S. Schramm

We present ${\tt bajes}$, a parallel and lightweight framework for Bayesian inference of multimessenger transients. ${\tt bajes}$ is a Python modular package with minimal dependencies on external libraries adaptable to the majority of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can constrain nuclear matter models predicting the neutron star's equation of state (EOS). Matter effects on the inspiral-merger signal are encoded in the multipolar tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Matteo Breschi , Gregorio Carullo , Sebastiano Bernuzzi