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Next-generation gravitational-wave observatories will reach farther into the universe than currently possible, revealing black-hole mergers from early stellar binary systems such as Population III stars, whose properties are currently…

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Using a population synthesis approach, we compute the total merger rate in the local Universe for double neutron stars, double black holes, and black hole -- neutron star binaries. These compact binaries are the prime source candidates for…

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

In August 2017, the first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, made it possible to study neutron stars in compact binary systems using gravitational waves. Despite being the loudest gravitational wave event detected to date…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-24 Stephanie M. Brown , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan

The coalescence of binary neutron stars (BNS) is a prolific source of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation, offering a dual observational window into the Universe. Lowering the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Yun-Fei Du , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , Jin-Hui Rao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu Zhang

In the third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detector era, GW multi-messenger observations for binary neutron star merger events can exert great impacts on exploring the cosmic expansion history. Extending the previous work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Tao Han , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Detection of primordial gravitational-wave backgrounds generated during the early universe phase transitions is a key science goal for future ground-based detectors. The rate of compact binary mergers is so large that their cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Surabhi Sachdev , Tania Regimbau , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutron stars are on the new frontiers of gravitational wave astrophysics and have strong connections to electromagnetic astronomy, nuclear astrophysics, and condensed matter physics. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Benjamin J. Owen

The detection of the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, was the first success story of multi-messenger observations of compact binary mergers. The inferred merger rate along with the increased sensitivity of the ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Deep Chatterjee , Shaon Ghosh , Patrick R. Brady , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Andrew L. Miller , Samaya Nissanke , Francesco Pannarale

Electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to supermassive black hole binary mergers observed by LISA can be localized to within the field of view of astronomical instruments ~10 deg^2 hours to weeks prior to coalescence. The temporal coincidence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bence Kocsis , Zoltan Haiman , Kristen Menou

We assess the impact of accurate, self-consistent modelling of thermal effects in neutron-star merger remnants in the context of third-generation gravitational-wave detectors. This is done through the usage, in Bayesian model selection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Verónica Villa-Ortega , Ana Lorenzo-Medina , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Milton Ruiz , Davide Guerra , Pablo Cerdá-Duran , José A. Font

We present a search for merging compact binary gravitational-wave sources that produce a signal appearing solely or primarily in a single detector. Past analyses have heavily relied on coincidence between multiple detectors to reduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 Alexander H. Nitz , Thomas Dent , Gareth S. Davies , Ian Harry

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Alistair McLeod , Damon Beveridge , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries produce gravitational-wave (GW) emission and outflows with significant kinetic energies. These outflows result in radio emissions through synchrotron radiation. We explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Kenta Hotokezaka , Samaya Nissanke , Gregg Hallinan , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Binary neutron-star (BNS) mergers are accompanied by multi-messenger emissions, including gravitational wave (GW), neutrino, and electromagnetic signals. Some fraction of BNS mergers may result in a rapidly spinning magnetar as a remnant,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura , Brian D. Metzger

Almost a hundred compact binary mergers have been detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration in the past few years providing us with a significant amount of new information on black holes and neutron stars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Kutay A. Çokluk , Kadri Yakut , Bruno Giacomazzo

Detection and parameter estimation of binary neutron star merger remnants can shed light on the physics of hot matter at supranuclear densities. Here we develop a fast, simple model that can generate gravitational waveforms, and show it can…

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a planned third generation gravitational waves detector located in Europe. Its design will be different from currently build interferometers, because ET will consist of three interferometers rotated by a 60 deg…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 I. Kowalska-Leszczynska , T. Bulik

As current gravitational wave (GW) detectors increase in sensitivity, and particularly as new instruments are being planned, there is the possibility that ground-based GW detectors will observe GWs from highly eccentric neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Tim Dietrich , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Brügmann

We study the properties of remnants formed in prompt-collapse binary neutron star mergers. We consider non-spinning binaries over a range of total masses and mass ratios across a set of 22 equations of state, totaling 107 numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Arnab Dhani , Alessandro Camilletti , David Radice , Rahul Kashyap , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego