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The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essential to this success since they are necessary to infer the…

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The late stage of an inspiraling neutron star binary gives rise to strong gravitational wave emission due to its highly dynamic, strong gravity. Moreover, interactions between the stellar magnetospheres can produce considerable…

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Gravitational wave interferometers have studied compact object mergers and solidified our understanding of strong gravity. Their increasing precision raises the possibility of detecting new physics, especially in a neutron star binary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Ian Harris , Yonatan Kahn

The coalescence of compact binaries containing neutron stars or black holes is one of the most promising signals for advanced ground-based laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors, with the first direct detections expected over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Simon Stevenson , Frank Ohme , Stephen Fairhurst

The properties of neutron star matter above nuclear density are not precisely known. Gravitational waves emitted from binary neutron stars during their late stages of inspiral and merger contain imprints of the neutron-star equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman

Binary neutron star mergers used to be the most promising candidate for gravitational waves for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, such as advanced LIGO and advanced VIRGO. This was proved by the detection of gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Kenta Kiuchi

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of binary neutron star coalescences play a crucial role to constrain the microscopic interaction of matter at ultrahigh density. Similarly, if boson stars exist in the universe their coalescence can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Costantino Pacilio , Massimo Vaglio , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Now that detection of gravitational wave signals from the coalescence of extra-galactic compact binary star mergers has become nearly routine, it is intriguing to consider other potential gravitational wave signatures. Here we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Keith Riles

Motivated by the recent detection of the gravitational wave signal emitted by a binary neutron star merger, we analyse the possible impact of dark matter on such signals. We show that dark matter cores in merging neutron stars may yield an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 John Ellis , Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen

The first inspiral of two neutron stars observed in gravitational waves was remarkably close, allowing the kind of simultaneous gravitational wave and electromagnetic observation that had not been expected for several years. Their merger,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 John L. Friedman , Nikolaos Stergioulas

A variety of high-energy events can take place in the seconds leading up to a binary neutron-star merger. Mechanisms involving tidal resonances, electrodynamic interactions, or shocks in mass-loaded wakes have been proposed as instigators…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Arthur G. Suvorov , Hao-Jui Kuan , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Elementary particles such as quarks and gluons are expected to be fundamental degrees of freedom at ultra high temperatures or densities, while natural phenomena in our daily lives are described in terms of hadronic degrees of freedom.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-05 Reiko Harada , Kipp Cannon , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku

Massive (hypermassive and supramassive) neutron stars are likely to be often formed after the merger of binary neutron stars. We explore the evolution process of the remnant massive neutron stars and gravitational waves emitted by them,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Takayuki Muranushi , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Binary neutron star mergers are rich laboratories for physics, accessible with ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. If a neutron star remnant survives the merger, it can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-13 Sharan Banagiri , Michael W. Coughlin , James Clark , Paul D. Lasky , M. A. Bizouard , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Vuk Mandic

The spectral properties of the post-merger gravitational-wave signal from a binary of neutron stars encode a variety of information about the features of the system and of the equation of state describing matter around and above nuclear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Konrad Topolski , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

Gravitational-wave detections are enabling measurements of the rate of coalescences of binaries composed of two compact objects -- neutron stars and/or black holes. The coalescence rate of binaries containing neutron stars is further…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-29 Ilya Mandel , Floor S. Broekgaarden

Binary neutron star mergers observations are a unique way to constrain fundamental physics and astrophysics at the extreme. The interpretation of gravitational-wave events and their electromagnetic counterparts crucially relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Sebastiano Bernuzzi

With the remarkable advent of gravitational-wave astronomy, we have shed light on previously shrouded events: compact binary coalescences. Neutron stars are promising (and confirmed) sources of gravitational radiation and it proves timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Fabian Gittins

The groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers and, most recently, coalescing neutron stars started a new era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and revolutionized our understanding of the Cosmos. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Plamen G. Krastev

Gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers provide valuable information about neutron star structure and the equation of state of dense nuclear matter. Numerous methods have been proposed to analyze the population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Jacob Golomb , Colm Talbot