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We use a Bayesian inference analysis to explore the sensitivity of Taylor expansion parameters of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) to the neutron star dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) on 1 to 2 solar masses neutron stars. A…

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Universal relations (i.e., insensitive to the equation of state) between macroscopic properties of neutron stars have proven useful for a variety of applications -- from providing a direct means to extract observables from data to breaking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-30 Jayana A. Saes , Raissa F. P. Mendes

Neutron stars and quark stars are ideal laboratories to study fundamental physics at supra nuclear densities and strong gravitational fields. Astrophysical observables, however, depend strongly on the star's internal structure, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-27 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

The moment of inertia, the spin-induced quadrupole moment, and the tidal Love number of neutron-star and quark-star models are related through some relations which depend only mildly on the stellar equation of state. These "I-Love-Q"…

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We show that there is a direct relation between upper limits on (or potential future measurements of) the m = 2 quadrupole moments of slowly rotating neutron stars and the l = m = 2 deformation of the star's surface, in full general…

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The gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star merger carries the imprint of the deformability properties of the coalescing bodies, and then of the equation of state of neutron stars. In current models of the waveforms emitted in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Gonçalo Castro , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Recently it was shown that slowly rotating neutron stars exhibit an interesting correlation between their moment of inertia $I$, their quadrupole moment $Q$, and their tidal deformation Love number $\lambda$ (the I-Love-Q relations),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-31 George Pappas , Theocharis A. Apostolatos

The universal relations in neutron stars form an essential entity to understand their properties. The moment of inertia, dimensionless tidal deformability, mass quadrupole moment, and oscillation modes are some of the properties that have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Sagnik Chatterjee , Kamal Krishna Nath

We have investigated the systematic differences introduced when performing a Bayesian-inference analysis of the equation of state of neutron stars employing either variable- or constant-likelihood functions. The former have the advantage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Jin-Liang Jiang , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla

Precise measurements of neutron star observables (such as mass and radius) allow one to constrain the equations of state for supranuclear matter and develop a stronger understanding of nuclear physics. The Neutron star Interior Composition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Tristen Lowrey , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

No-hair like relations between the multipole moments of the exterior gravitational field of neutron stars have recently been found to be approximately independent of the star's internal structure. This approximate, equation-of-state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-06 Barun Majumder , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

For a variety of fully relativistic polytropic neutron star models we calculate the star's tidal Love number k2. Most realistic equations of state for neutron stars can be approximated as a polytrope with an effective index n~0.5-1.0. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Tanja Hinderer

The dense material in a compact star from a supernova remnant is beyond terrestrial experimentation, so phenomenological modeling is used to match astrophysical observations. This is crucial due to the complex sensitivity of compact star…

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Gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron stars (BNS) provide information about the internal structure of neutron stars (NSs), helping to verify dense matter equations of state. We investigate how the measurement accuracy of NS's tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Gyeongbin Park , Chang-Hwan Lee , Hee-Suk Cho

As some of the most compact stellar objects in the universe, neutron stars are unique cosmic laboratories. The study of neutron stars provides an ideal theoretical testbed for investigating both physics at supra-nuclear densities as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-29 Grigorios Papigkiotis , George Pappas

We perform new longterm (15-16 orbits) simulations of coalescing binary neutron stars in numerical relativity using an updated Einstein's equation solver, employing low-eccentricity initial data, and modeling the neutron stars by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-01 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata

Most observed neutron stars have masses around 1.4 $M_\odot$, consistent with current formation mechanisms. To date, no sub-solar mass neutron star has been observed. Observing a low-mass neutron star would be a significant milestone,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Keisi Kacanja , Alexander H. Nitz

We report results of numerical relativity simulations for {\it new} 26 non-spinning binary neutron star systems with 6 grid resolutions using an adaptive mesh refinement numerical re\ lativity code {\tt SACRA-MPI}. The finest grid spacing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Kenta Kiuchi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We provide a summary of several parametrisations for the nuclear equation of state that have been proposed over the past decades and list viable ranges for their parameters. Based on these parametrisations, we construct a large database of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Christian J. Krüger , Mariachiara Celato

Recent observations of neutron stars (NS) with radio, X-rays and gravitational waves have begun to constrain the equation of state (EoS) for nuclear matter beyond the nuclear saturation density. To one's surprise, there exist approximate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-28 Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi