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As neutron stars merge they can approach very high nuclear density. Here, we summarized recent results for the evolution and gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star mergers using a a variety of nuclear equations of state with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Grant J. Mathews , Atul Kedia , Hee Il Kim , In-Saeng Suh

Neutron-star (NS) merger simulations are conducted for 38 representative microphysical descriptions of high-density matter in order to explore the equation-of-state dependence of the postmerger ring-down phase. The formation of a deformed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Bauswein , H. -T. Janka , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

The gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures connected to the merger of two neutron stars allow us to test the nature of matter at supranuclear densities. Since the Equation of State governing the interior of neutron stars is only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-09 Henrique Gieg , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic

We demonstrate how observables of slowly rotating neutron stars can be used to constrain the nuclear equation of state. By building a Bayesian framework we demonstrate how combining different types of neutron star measurements, motivated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Sebastian H. Völkel , Christian J. Krüger

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) recently measured the mass and equatorial radius of the isolated neutron star PSR J0030+0451. We use these measurements to infer the moment of inertia, the quadrupole moment, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-06 Hector O. Silva , A. Miguel Holgado , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Nicolás Yunes

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

Although gravitational-wave signals from exceptional low-mass compact binary coalescences, like GW170817, may carry matter signatures that differentiate the source from a binary black hole system, only one out of every eight events detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Reed Essick , Philippe Landry

The electromagnetic (EM) signal of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger depends sensitively on the total binary mass, $M_{\rm tot}$, relative to various threshold masses set by the neutron star (NS) equation-of-state (EOS), parameterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

Extending previous work by a number of authors, we have recently presented a new approach in which the detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries can be used to determine the equation of state of matter at nuclear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-09 Kentaro Takami , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Baiotti

We present a test of the statistical method introduced by Bernard F. Shutz in 1986 using only gravitational waves to infer the Hubble constant ($\text{H}_0$) from GW190814, the first high-probability neutron-star--black-hole (NS-BH) merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sergiy Vasylyev , Alex Filippenko

The equation of state plays a critical role in the physics of the merger of two neutron stars. Recent numerical simulations with microphysical equation of state suggest the outcome of such events depends on the mass of the neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Clark , A. Bauswein , L. Cadonati , H. -T. Janka , C. Pankow , N. Stergioulas

We propose a method to constrain the variation of the gravitational constant $G$ with cosmic time using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of merging binary neutron stars. The method essentially relies on the fact that the maximum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

We study in detail the f-mode secular instability for rapidly rotating neutron stars, putting emphasis on supermassive models which do not have a stable nonrotating counterpart. Such neutron stars are thought to be the generic outcome of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Daniela D. Doneva , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Pantelis Pnigouras

We combine electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) information on the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 in order to constrain the radii $R_{\rm ns}$ and maximum mass $M_{\rm max}$ of NSs. GW170817 was followed by a range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Ben Margalit , Brian Metzger

We derive the empirical formulas for the neutron star mass and gravitational redshift as a function of the central density and specific combination of the nuclear saturation parameters, which are applicable to the stellar models constructed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Hajime Sotani , Hajime Togashi

We study the implications of the recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by a pair of merging neutron stars and their electromagnetic counterpart, events GW170817 and GRB170817A, on the viability of the doubly coupled bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Yashar Akrami , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Valeri Vardanyan

The gravitational-wave (GW) events, produced by the coalescence of binary neutron-stars (BNS), can be treated as the standard sirens to probe the expansion history of the Universe, if their redshifts could be determined from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Jiming Yu , Haoran Song , Shunke Ai , He Gao , Fayin Wang , Yu Wang , Youjun Lu , Wenjuan Fang , Wen Zhao

The observation of gravitational waves from an asymmetric binary opens the possibility for heavy neutron stars, but these pose challenges to models of the neutron star equation of state. We construct heavy neutron stars by introducing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Hung Tan , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Nico Yunes

Gravitational waves observation with electromagnetic counterparts provides an approach to measure the Hubble constant which is also known as the bright siren method. Great hope has been put into this method to arbitrate the Hubble tension.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 Y. F. Du , S. X. Yi , S. N. Zhang , Shu Zhang

A compact object was observed with a mass $2.50-2.67~M_\odot$ by LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations (LVC) in GW190814, which provides a great challenge to the investigations into the supranuclear matter. To study this object,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen
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