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The remnant star of a neutron star merger is an anticipated loud source of kiloHertz gravitational waves that conveys unique information on the equation of state of hot matter at extreme densities. Observations of such signals are hampered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Francesco Zappa , Michalis Agathos , Albino Perego , David Radice , Alessandro Nagar

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

Some recent, long-term numerical simulations of binary neutron star mergers have shown that the long-lived remnants produced in such mergers might be affected by convective instabilities. Those would trigger the excitation of inertial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Florencia L. Castillo , Roberto De Pietri , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José A. Font

Because of the electromagnetic radiation produced during the merger, compact binary coalescences with neutron stars may result in multi-messenger observations. In order to follow up on the gravitational-wave signal with electromagnetic…

The cosmic microwave background power spectra are a primary window into the early universe. However, achieving interpretable, likelihood-compatible compression and fast inference under weak model assumptions remains challenging. We propose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Tian-Yang Sun , Tian-Nuo Li , He Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Deep generative models are stochastic neural networks capable of learning the distribution of data so as to generate new samples. Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) is a powerful deep generative model aiming at maximizing the lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Shima Kamyab , Rasool Sabzi , Zohreh Azimifar

Massive (hypermassive and supramassive) neutron stars are likely to be often formed after the merger of binary neutron stars. We explore the evolution process of the remnant massive neutron stars and gravitational waves emitted by them,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Takayuki Muranushi , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Determining the equation of state of matter at nuclear density and hence the structure of neutron stars has been a riddle for decades. We show how the imminent detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries can be used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-05 Kentaro Takami , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Baiotti

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

The equation of state plays a critical role in the physics of the merger of two neutron stars. Recent numerical simulations with microphysical equation of state suggest the outcome of such events depends on the mass of the neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Clark , A. Bauswein , L. Cadonati , H. -T. Janka , C. Pankow , N. Stergioulas

We explore the potential for detecting rotational instabilities in the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers using different network configurations of upgraded and next-generation gravitational wave detectors. Our study employs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Argyro Sasli , Nikolaos Karnesis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of two neutron stars carries information about the stars' internal structure. During the long inspiral phase the main matter observable is the tidal interaction between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-13 Marcella Wijngaarden , Katerina Chatziioannou , Andreas Bauswein , James A. Clark , Neil J. Cornish

Constructing the outer crust of the neutron stars requires the knowledge of the Binding Energy (BE) of the atomic nuclei. Although the BE of a lot of the nuclei is experimentally determined and can be obtained from the AME data table, for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Murarka Utsav Anil , Kinjal Banerjee , Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência

The post-merger phase of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers encodes valuable information about the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear matter. Extracting this information from the analysis of the post-merger waveforms remains challenging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

Binary neutron star mergers are rich laboratories for physics, accessible with ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. If a neutron star remnant survives the merger, it can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-13 Sharan Banagiri , Michael W. Coughlin , James Clark , Paul D. Lasky , M. A. Bizouard , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Vuk Mandic

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

Gravitational wave astronomy has established its role in measuring the equation of state governing cold supranuclear matter. To date and in the near future, gravitational wave measurements from neutron star binaries are likely to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Ka Wa Tsang , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

It has been estimated that a significant proportion of binary neutron star merger events produce long-lived massive remnants supported by differential rotation and subject to rotational instabilities. To examine formation and oscillation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-08 Xuefeng Zhang , Zhoujian Cao

Merging neutron stars are expected to produce hot, metastable remnants in rapid differential rotation, which subsequently cool and evolve into rigidly rotating neutron stars or collapse to black holes. Studying this metastable phase and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-19 Giovanni Camelio , Tim Dietrich , Stephan Rosswog , Brynmor Haskell

We present a new inference framework for neutron star astrophysics based on conditional variational autoencoders. Once trained, the generator block of the model reconstructs the neutron star equation of state from a given set of mass-radius…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-23 Márcio Ferreira , Michał Bejger