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The Equation of State (EOS) of dense strongly-interacting matter can be probed by astrophysical observations of neutron stars (NS), such as X-ray detections of pulsars or the measurement of the tidal deformability of NSs during the inspiral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Maximiliano Ujevic , Rahul Somasundaram , Tim Dietrich , Jerome Margueron , Ingo Tews

An extended set of binary neutron star (NS) merger simulations is performed with an approximative conformally flat treatment of general relativity to systematically investigate the influence of the nuclear equation of state (EoS), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Oechslin , H. -T. Janka , A. Marek

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

The mass ($M_{\rm TOV}$) and radius ($R_{\rm TOV}$) of the maximum-mass nonrotating neutron star (NS) play a crucial role in constraining the elusive equation of state of cold dense matter and in predicting the fate of remnants from binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Shao-Peng Tang , Bo Gao , Yin-Jie Li , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The post-merger product of the first binary neutron star merger event detected in gravitational waves, GW170817, depends on neutron star equation of state (EoS) and is not well determined. We generally discuss the constraints one may pose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Bing Zhang

We study the lifetimes of the remnant produced by the merger of two neutron stars and revisit the determination of the threshold mass to prompt collapse, $M_{\rm th}$. Using a fully general-relativistic numerical approach and a novel method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Sven Köppel , Luke Bovard , Luciano Rezzolla

The merger of binary neutron stars is likely to lead to differentially rotating remnants. In this paper, we survey several cold nuclear equations of state (EOSs) and numerically construct models of differentially rotating neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian A. Morrison , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

The merger of neutron star (NS)-NS binary can form different production of the compact remnant, among which the supramassive NS (SMNS) could create an internal plateau and the followed steep decay marks the collapse of the SMNS. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Yun-Peng Li , Zhi-Lin Chen , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang

Inspiraling and merging binary neutron stars (BNSs) are important sources of both gravitational waves and coincident electromagnetic counterparts. If the BNS total mass is larger than a threshold value, a black hole ensues promptly after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-06 Vasileios Paschalidis , Milton Ruiz

We simulate the merger of binary neutron stars and analyze the spectral properties of their gravitational waveforms. For the stars we construct hybrid equations of state (EoSs) with a standard nuclear matter EoS at low densities,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Christian Ecker , Matti Järvinen , Govert Nijs , Wilke van der Schee

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EOS). We present a new methodology for EOS inference with non-parametric Gaussian process (GP) priors, enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Nikhil Sarin , Hiranya V. Peiris , Daniel J. Mortlock , Justin Alsing , Samaya M. Nissanke , Stephen M. Feeney

By assuming the formation of a black hole soon after the merger event of GW170817, Shibata et al. updated the constraints on the maximum mass ($M_\textrm{max}$) of a stable neutron star within $\lesssim$ 2.3 $M_{\odot}$, but there is no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Xuhao Wu , Shuang Du , Renxin Xu

Latest general relativistic simulations for merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state (EOSs) show that a hypermassive neutron star of an ellipsoidal figure is formed after the merger if the total mass is smaller than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata

The cores of neutron stars (NSs) near the maximum mass realize the most highly compressed matter in the universe where quark degrees of freedom may be liberated. Such a state of dense matter is hypothesized as quark matter (QM) and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku

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 have conducted an extensive study using a diverse set of equations of state (EoSs) to uncover strong relationships between neutron star (NS) observables and the underlying EoS parameters using symbolic regression method. These EoS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 N. K. Patra , Tuhin Malik , Helena Pais , Kai Zhou , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

Instead of parameterizing the pressure-density relation of a neutron star (NS), one can parameterize its macroscopic properties such as mass ($M$), radius ($R$), and dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) to infer the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Bhaskar Biswas , Sayak Datta

Binary neutron star mergers are strong gravitational wave (GW) sources and the leading candidates to interpret short duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). Under the assumptions that SGRBs are produced by double neutron star mergers and that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-06 He Gao , Bing Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü

Theoretical models of the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-star matter (starting with the crust and ending at the densest region of the stellar core) are reviewed. Apart from a broad set of baryonic EOSs, strange quark matter, and even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Haensel

Recent rapid progress in neutron-star (NS) observations offers great potential to constrain the properties of strongly interacting matter under the most extreme conditions. In order to fully exploit the current observational inputs and to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-17 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Evangelia Katerini , Aleksi Kurkela , Joonas Nättilä , Vasileios Paschalidis , Aleksi Vuorinen