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A major boost in the understanding of the universe was given by the revelation of the first coalescence event of two neutron stars (GW170817) and the observation of the same event across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. With 3rd…

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Gravitational waves from the collision of binary neutron stars provide a unique opportunity to study the behaviour of supranuclear matter, the fundamental properties of gravity, and the cosmic history of our Universe. However, given the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Gregory Ashton , Tim Dietrich

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) with possible telescope follow-ups opens a window to ground-breaking discoveries in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. With the improved sensitivity of current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Ana Martins , Melissa Lopez , Quirijn Meijer , Gregory Baltus , Marc van der Sluys , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill

When 3D relative displacement $\mathbf{r}$ and velocity $\mathbf{v}$ between the pair in a gravitationally-bound system are precisely measured, the six measured quantities at one phase can allow elliptical orbit solutions at a given…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-20 Kyu-Hyun Chae

We apply neural posterior estimation for fast-and-accurate hierarchical Bayesian inference of gravitational wave populations. We use a normalizing flow to estimate directly the population hyper-parameters from a collection of individual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Konstantin Leyde , Stephen R. Green , Alexandre Toubiana , Jonathan Gair

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories have opened a new window with which to study the inspiral and mergers of binary compact objects. These observations are most powerful when coordinated with multi-messenger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-29 Zhi-Qiang You , Gregory Ashton , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane , Zong-Hong Zhu

Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are capable of measuring tidal influences in binary neutron-star systems. In this work, we report on the statistical uncertainties in measuring tidal deformability with a full Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Leslie Wade , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Evan Ochsner , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin F. Farr , Tyson B. Littenberg , Vivien Raymond

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Nina Kunert , Guilherme Grams , William Newton , Edoardo Giangrandi , Anna Puecher , Hauke Koehn , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

Gravitational wave models are used to infer the properties of black holes in merging binaries from the observed gravitational wave signals through Bayesian inference. Although we have access to a large collection of signal models that are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Charlie Hoy

Gravitational waves (GWs) have rapidly become important cosmological probes since their first detection in 2015. As the number of detected events continues to rise, upcoming instruments like the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Stefano Zazzera , José Fonseca , Tessa Baker , Chris Clarkson

Recently exploratory studies were performed on the possibility of constraining the neutron star equation of state (EOS) using signals from coalescing binary neutron stars, or neutron star-black hole systems, as they will be seen in upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-05 Michalis Agathos , Jeroen Meidam , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Marco Tompitak , John Veitch , Salvatore Vitale , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational-wave data analysis demands sophisticated statistical noise models in a bid to extract highly obscured signals from data. In Bayesian model comparison, we choose among a landscape of models by comparing their marginal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Haochen Wang , Stephen R. Taylor , Michele Vallisneri

Gravitational waves in the postmerger phase of binary neutron star mergers may become detectable with planned upgrades of existing gravitational-wave detectors or with more sensitive next-generation detectors. The construction of template…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Dimitrios Pesios , Ioannis Koutalios , Dimitris Kugiumtzis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Future gravitational wave detections of merging binary neutron star systems have the possibility to tightly constrain the equation of state of dense nuclear matter. In order to extract such constraints, gravitational waveform models need to…

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

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

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

As gravitational wave instrumentation becomes more sensitive, it is interesting to speculate about subtle effects that could be analyzed using upcoming generations of detectors. One such effect that has great potential for revealing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Cecilia Chirenti , Roman Gold , M. Coleman Miller

Gravitational waves are now routinely detected from compact binary mergers, with binary neutron star mergers being of note for multi-messenger astronomy as they have been observed to produce electromagnetic counterparts. Novel search…

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