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Determining the equation of state of matter at nuclear density and hence the structure of neutron stars has been a riddle for decades. We show how the imminent detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries can be used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-05 Kentaro Takami , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Baiotti

Recent observations of massive galaxies indicate that they double in mass and quintuple in size between redshift z = 1 and the present, despite undergoing very little star formation, suggesting that galaxy mergers drive the evolution. Since…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Sean T. McWilliams , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Frans Pretorius

Detecting unmodeled gravitational wave (GW) bursts presents significant challenges due to the lack of accurate waveform templates required for matched-filtering techniques. A primary difficulty lies in distinguishing genuine signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Matteo Pracchia , Sacha Peters , Maxime Fays

We present new (3+1)D numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star (BNS) merger and postmerger phase. We focus on a previously inaccessible region of the binary parameter space spanning the binary's mass-ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann

We present a novel machine-learning approach to estimate selection effects in gravitational-wave observations. Using techniques similar to those commonly employed in image classification and pattern recognition, we train a series of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Davide Gerosa , Geraint Pratten , Alberto Vecchio

Pre-merger localization of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is one of the most important scientific goals for the third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors. It will enable the electromagnetic observation of the whole process of BNS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Qian Hu , John Veitch

In this work we characterise the performance of a new search technique designed to be sensitive to the remnants of binary neutron star systems. Sensitivity estimates of the new method on simulated data are competitive against those of other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Benjamin Grace , Karl Wette , Susan M. Scott , Ling Sun

We present a method to accelerate the evaluation of the likelihood in gravitational wave parameter estimation. Parameter estimation codes compute likelihoods of similar waveforms, whose phases and amplitudes differ smoothly with frequency.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 Barak Zackay , Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav

Thanks to the recent discoveries of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo, the genuinely strong-field dynamics of spacetime can now be…

Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect millions of binary black hole mergers during their operation period. A small fraction ($\sim 0.1 - 1\%$) of them will be strongly lensed by intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Souvik Jana , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Surhud More , Parameswaran Ajith

We propose a method based on the process of extracting gravitational wave (GW) parameters from GW signals to simulate the binary neutron-star (BNS) merging events. We simulate 1000 GW standard sirens based on the observation of the Einstein…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Dong Zhao , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Jun-Qing Xia

Core-collapse supernovae are fascinating astrophysical objects for multimessenger studies. Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to play a role in the supernova explosion mechanism, but their modelling is also challenging due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-10 Odysse Halim , Claudio Casentini , Marco Drago , Viviana Fafone , Kate Scholberg , Carlo Francesco Vigorito , Giulia Pagliaroli

Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) experiments will explore higher frequency ranges, where GW wavelengths approach the size of the detector itself. In this regime, GWs may be detected not just through the well-known mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Lars Fischer , Tom Krokotsch , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

Observations of the high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the hot and massive remnant of a binary neutron star merger will provide new probes of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). We show that current uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

The recent advances in Gravitational-wave astronomy have greatly accelerated the study of Multimessenger astrophysics. There is a need for the development of fast and efficient algorithms to detect non-astrophysical transients and noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Rahul Nigam , Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy

The very first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star binary merger, GW170817, exceeded all expectations. The event was relatively nearby, which may point to a relatively high merger rate. It was possible to extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Andreas Bauswein

Binary neutron star (NS) mergers are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs), as well as candidate progenitors for short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs). Depending on the total initial mass of the system, and the NS equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Simone Dall'Osso , Bruno Giacomazzo , Rosalba Perna , Luigi Stella

The high computational cost of wide-parameter-space searches for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) significantly limits the achievable sensitivity. This challenge has motivated the exploration of alternative search methods, such as deep…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Prasanna M. Joshi , Reinhard Prix

We explore the potential of lunar-based gravitational-wave detectors to broaden the multi-messenger astrophysics landscape by detecting mergers of massive ($M_1,M_2 >1 M_\odot$) double white dwarf (WD) binaries. These systems are potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Manuel Pichardo Marcano , Anjali B. Yelikar , Karan Jani