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A new generation of observatories is looking for gravitational waves. These waves, emitted by highly relativistic systems, will open a new window for ob- servation of the cosmos when they are detected. Among the most promising sources of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Warren G. Anderson , Jolien D. E. Creighton

The discovery of GW170817 with gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation is prompting new questions in strong-gravity astrophysics. Importantly, it remains unknown whether the progenitor of the merger comprised two…

Gravitational waves from neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers that undergo tidal disruption provide a potential avenue to study the equation of state of neutron stars and hence the behaviour of matter at its most extreme densities. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Teagan A. Clarke , Lani Chastain , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

In the next few years, the first detections of gravity-wave signals using Earth-based interferometric detectors will begin to provide precious new information about the structure and dynamics of compact bodies such as neutron stars. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Michele Vallisneri

We present a robust and efficient methodology for parameter estimation of gravitational waves generated during the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers. Our approach leverages an analytic waveform model combined with empirical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Stamatis Vretinaris , Georgios Vretinaris , Christos Mermigkas , Minas Karamanis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Compact object binaries formed from dynamics interactions will generically have non-zero orbital eccentricity. The gravitational waves from such binaries can change drastically depending on how large the eccentricity is, ranging from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Nicholas Loutrel

GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest observed black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Ivan Markin , Anna Puecher , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

Gravitational-wave sources can serve as standard sirens to probe cosmology by measuring their luminosity distance and redshift. Such standard sirens are also useful to probe theories beyond general relativity with a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi

Gravitational waves from binary neutron stars in quasiequilibrium circular orbits are computed using an approximate method which we propose in this paper. In the first step of this method, we prepare general relativistic irrotational binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems can shed light on the currently unknown dense matter equation of state. The equation of state determines a large number of neutron star properties, such as tidal deformability,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Natalie Williams , Anna Puecher , Guilherme Grams , César V. Flores , Tim Dietrich

The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the neutron star binary inspiral GW170817 has opened a unique avenue to probe matter and fundamental interactions in previously unexplored regimes. Extracting information on neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-07 Patricia Schmidt , Tanja Hinderer

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

With the first observation of a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves and light GW170817, compact binary mergers have now taken the center stage in nuclear astrophysics. They are thought to be one of the main astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-11 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Albino Perego

Gravitational-wave signals from coalescing binary neutron stars can yield important information about the properties of nuclear-matter equation of state from the early part of the signal through tidal effects to the properties and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-13 Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Lap-Ming Lin , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

We study how to extract information on the neutron star equation of state from the gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of a binary system composed of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. We use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

We discuss gravitational waves from merging binaries using a Newtonian approach with some inputs from the Post-Newtonian formalism. We show that it is possible to understand the key features of the signal using fundamental physics and also…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jahanvi , Ashish Kumar Meena , J. S. Bagla

The advanced gravitational wave (GW) detector network has started {routine detection of } signals from merging compact binaries. Data indicate that in a fair fraction of these sources, at least one component was a neutron star, bringing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-29 Akshat Singhal , Sourav Palit , Suman Bala , Gaurav Waratkar , Harsh Kumar , Varun Bhalerao

We present a time-domain model for the gravitational waves emitted by equal-mass binary neutron star merger remnants for a fixed equation of state. We construct a large set of numerical relativity simulations for a single equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Theodoros Soultanis , Kiril Maltsev , Andreas Bauswein , Katerina Chatziioannou , Friedrich K. Roepke , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Neutron star equations of state with strong phase transitions may support twin stars, hybrid and hadronic stars with the same mass but different tidal deformabilities. The presence of twin stars in the population of merging neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-20 Philippe Landry , Kabir Chakravarti

LIGO and Virgo recently observed the first binary neutron star merger, demonstrating that gravitational-waves offer the ability to probe how matter behaves in one of the most extreme environments in the Universe. However, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-11 Ian Harry , Tanja Hinderer