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In numerical simulations of binary neutron star systems, the equation of state of the dense neutron star matter is an important factor in determining both the physical realism and the numerical accuracy of the simulations. Some equations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-10 Alexander Knight , Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Mike Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers are expected to provide stringent constraints on the structure of neutron stars. At the same time, recent advances in nuclear theory have enabled reliable calculations of the low density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

Future high-precision X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars (NSs) are expected to constrain NS radii with uncertainties as small as $\sigma \simeq 0.1$~km. Such unprecedented precision offers a unique opportunity to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Bao-An Li , Xavier Grundler , Wen-Jie Xie , Nai-Bo Zhang

We have analyzed in this work the updated sample of neutron star masses derived from the study of a variety of 96 binary systems containing at least one neutron star using Bayesian methods. After updating the multimodality of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 L. S. Rocha , R. R. A. Bachega , J. E. Horvath , P. H. R. S. Moraes

Coincident multimessenger observations of cosmic sources can offer numerous benefits, especially when used in the context of synergistic astrophysics. One significant advantage is enhancing the detection significance of separate detectors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-12 Doğa Veske , Albert Zhang , Zsuzsa Márka , Szabolcs Márka

Set of neutron star observational results is used to test some selected equations of state of dense nuclear matter. The first observational result comes from the mass--baryon number relation for pulsar B of the double pulsar system J…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-21 Martin Urbanec , Emil Betak , Zdenek Stuchlik

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network in the upcoming A+ era with upgrades of both Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will enable more frequent and precise observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, improving constraints on the neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexis Boudon , Hong Qi , Jean-François Coupechoux , Philippe Landry , Viola Sordini

The detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) systems and neutron star--black hole (NSBH) systems provide new insights into dense matter properties in extreme conditions and associated high-energy astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-22 Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has intensified efforts towards the understanding of the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. In this letter, we compare…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-18 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

Bayesian model mixing (BMM) is a statistical technique that can combine constraints from different regions of an input space in a principled way. Here we extend our BMM framework for the equation of state (EOS) of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 A. C. Semposki , C. Drischler , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

We infer the mass distribution of neutron stars in binary systems using a flexible Gaussian mixture model and use Bayesian model selection to explore evidence for multi-modality and a sharp cut-off in the mass distribution. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Justin Alsing , Hector O. Silva , Emanuele Berti

We propose a new Bayesian framework to infer the neutron star equation of state (EOS) from mass and radius observations and neutron matter theory by defining priors that directly parameterize mass-radius space instead of pressure-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Boyang Sun , Tianqi Zhao , James M. Lattimer

A number of works have shown that important information on the equation of state of matter at nuclear density can be extracted from the gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron-star binaries. We present a comprehensive analysis of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

The description of stellar interior remains as a big challenge for the nuclear astrophysics community. The consolidated knowledge is restricted to density regions around the saturation of hadronic matter $\rho _{0} = 2.8\times 10^{14} {\rm\…

Simulations of binary neutron stars have seen great advances in terms of physical detail and numerical quality. However, the spin of the neutron stars, one of the simplest global parameters of binaries, remains mostly unstudied. We present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tim Dietrich , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Bruegmann

Gravitational wave detectors in the LIGO/Virgo frequency band are able to measure the individual masses and the composite tidal deformabilities of neutron-star binary systems. This paper demonstrates that high accuracy measurements of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Lee Lindblom

The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical systematics compared to neutron star radius measurements with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Zack Carson , Andrew W. Steiner , Kent Yagi

The last five years have seen remarkable progress in our quest to determine the equation of state of neutron rich matter. Recent advances across the theoretical, experimental, and observational landscape have been incorporated in a Bayesian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-13 Marc Salinas , J. Piekarewicz

Extensions to General Relativity (GR) allow the polarization of gravitational waves (GW) from astrophysical sources to suffer from amplitude and velocity birefringence, which respectively induce changes in the ellipticity and orientation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Macarena Lagos , Leah Jenks , Maximiliano Isi , Kenta Hotokezaka , Brian D. Metzger , Eric Burns , Will M. Farr , Scott Perkins , Kaze W. K. Wong , Nicolas Yunes