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We discuss the role of dynamical tidal effects for inspiralling neutron star binaries, focussing on features that may be considered "unmodelled" in gravitational-wave searches. In order to cover the range of possibilities, we consider i)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 N. Andersson , W. C. G. Ho

A number of White Dwarfs (WDs) in cataclysmic binaries have shown brightness variations consistent with non-radial oscillations as observed in isolated WDs. A few objects have been well-characterized with photometric campaigns in the hopes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Dean M. Townsley , Phil Arras , Lars Bildsten

We study the tidal excitation of gravity modes (g-modes) in compact white dwarf binary systems with periods ranging from minutes to hours. As the orbit of the system decays via gravitational radiation, the orbital frequency increases and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-21 James Fuller , Dong Lai

Tidal dissipation in spinning compact binaries imprints characteristic corrections on the late-inspiral gravitational-wave signal. We develop a next-to-leading order post-Newtonian description of dissipative, electric-quadrupolar tides in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Anand Balivada , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Nicolás Yunes

Tidal effects have important imprints on gravitational waves (GWs) emitted during the final stage of the coalescence of binaries that involve neutron stars (NSs). Dynamical tides can be significant when NS oscillations become resonant with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-19 Sizheng Ma , Hang Yu , Yanbei Chen

Compact-object binaries including a white dwarf component are unique among gravitational-wave sources because their evolution is governed not just by general relativity and tides, but also by mass transfer. While the black hole and neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Kyle Kremer , Eric Thrane

While dynamical tides only become relevant during the last couple of orbits for circular inspirals, orbital eccentricity can increase their impact during earlier phases of the inspiral by exciting tidal oscillations at each close encounter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 János Takátsy , Bence Kocsis , Péter Kovács

Compact binary white dwarfs (WDs) undergoing orbital decay due to gravitational radiation can experience significant tidal heating prior to merger. In these WDs, the dominant tidal effect involves the excitation of outgoing gravity waves in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jim Fuller , Dong Lai

Tidal interactions in coalescing binary neutron stars modify the dynamics of the inspiral and hence imprint a signature on their gravitational wave (GW) signals in the form of an extra phase shift. We need accurate models for the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg , Phil Arras , James Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav

Double white dwarfs are important gravitational wave sources for LISA, as they are some of the most numerous compact systems in our universe. Here we consider finite-sized effects due to tidal interactions, as they are expected to have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Grace Fiacco , Neil J. Cornish , Hang Yu

We investigate the dynamical tide in a gravitational wave (GW)-driven coalescing binary involving a neutron star (NS). The NS is assumed to spin rapidly, with its spin axis anti-aligned with the orbit. Such an NS may exist if the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Hang Yu , Phil Arras , Nevin N. Weinberg

White dwarf-white dwarf (WD-WD) mergers may lead to type Ia supernovae events. Thompson (2011) suggested that many such binaries are produced in hierarchical triple systems. The tertiary induces eccentricity oscillations in the inner binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-27 Snezana Prodan , Norman Murray , Todd A. Thompson

A white dwarf (WD) captured into a high-eccentricity orbit around a massive black hole (MBH) may undergo many pericenter passages before tidal disruption. During these passages, the tidal potential of the MBH excites internal oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-22 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai , Jim Fuller

Dynamical tides can provide us vital information about the properties of neutron star (NS) matter. This is particularly true for g-modes, whose frequency and tidal coupling are highly sensitive to the composition of NSs, especially in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 János Takátsy , Lorenz Zwick , Pankaj Saini , Johan Samsing

Tidal effects in gravitational-wave (GW) observations from binary neutron star mergers have the potential to probe ultra-dense matter and shed light on the unknown nuclear equation of state of neutron stars. Tidal effects in inspiralling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Natalie Williams , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

Observations of gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by coalescing binary neutron stars (NS), like the GW event GW170817, can be exploited to constrain the equation of state (EoS) of matter in the stars' inner core. The information on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-02 Tiziano Abdelsalhin

Eccentric white dwarf-massive black hole binaries can potentially source some extreme X-ray transients, including the recently observed quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions and tidal disruption events at the galactic nuclei. Meanwhile, they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Shu Yan Lau , Hang Yu

The traditional description of the orbital evolution of compact-object binaries, like double white dwarfs (DWDs), assumes that the system is driven only by gravitational wave (GW) radiation. However, the high magnetic fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 G. A. Carvalho , R. C. dos Anjos , J. G. Coelho , R. V. Lobato , M. Malheiro , R. M. Marinho , J. F. Rodriguez , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

Tidal and tidal-resonant effects in coalescing compact binary systems are investigated by direct numerical integration of the equations of motion. For the stars polytropic models are used. The tidal effects are found to be dominated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Gerhard Schaefer

In the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a compact binary coalescence system where the mass of one of the companions is $\leq 5~M_{\odot}$ the nature of the object is ambiguous until the measurements of tidal effects give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-20 Shubhanshu Tiwari , Michael Ebersold , Eleanor Z. Hamilton