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We study the tidal response of rotating solar mass stars, as well as more massive rotating stars, of different ages in the context of tidal captures leading to either giant exoplanets on close in orbits, or the formation of binary systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. V. Chernov , J. C. B. Papaloizou , P. B. Ivanov

We discuss the response of neutron stars to the tidal interaction in a compact binary system, as encoded in the Love number associated with the induced deformation. This problem is of interest for gravitational-wave astronomy as there may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. J. Penner , N. Andersson , L. Samuelsson , I. Hawke , D. I. Jones

Tidal effects in gravitational-wave (GW) observations from binary neutron star mergers have the potential to probe ultra-dense matter and shed light on the unknown nuclear equation of state of neutron stars. Tidal effects in inspiralling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Natalie Williams , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

We investigate the nonlinear tidal response of relativistic neutron stars by computing the fully relativistic, static, quadratic Love numbers. Using both the worldline effective field theory for extended gravitating bodies and second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Paolo Pani , Massimiliano Maria Riva , Luca Santoni , Nikola Savić , Filippo Vernizzi

Tidal deformabilities are one of the observable quantities characterizing neutron stars, which are strongly associated with the stellar compactness, the ratio of the stellar mass to the radius. In addition to the tidal deformability, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Hajime Sotani

Dynamical tides can provide us vital information about the properties of neutron star (NS) matter. This is particularly true for g-modes, whose frequency and tidal coupling are highly sensitive to the composition of NSs, especially in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 János Takátsy , Lorenz Zwick , Pankaj Saini , Johan Samsing

We present a Newtonian multi-fluid formalism for superfluid neutron star cores, focussing on the additional dissipative terms that arise when one takes into account the individual dynamical degrees of freedom associated with the coupled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Haskell , N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

Gravitational waves emitted by coalescing binary systems containing neutron stars (or other compact objects) carry signatures of the stars' internal equation of state, notably, through the influence of tidal deformations during the binary's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Batoul Banihashemi , Justin Vines

We systematically study the tidal deformability for neutron and hyperon stars using relativistic mean field (RMF) equations of state (EOSs). The tidal effect plays an important role during the early part of the evolution of compact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , S. K. Patra

We investigate the constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars by considering the tidal deformability in the merge of neutron star binaries. In order to extract the most reliable range of uncertainty from theory, we employ models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Young-Min Kim , Yeunhwan Lim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

Finite size effects come into play during the late stages of neutron star binary inspiral, with the tidal deformability of the supranuclear density matter leaving an imprint on the gravitational-wave signal. As demonstrated in the case of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 N. Andersson , P. Pnigouras

Gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations can provide new insights into the nature of matter at supra-nuclear densities inside neutron stars. Improvements in electromagnetic and gravitational wave sensing instruments continue to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Shawn Rosofsky , Roman Gold , Cecilia Chirenti , E. A. Huerta , M. Coleman Miller

Tidal interaction in a coalescing neutron star binary can resonantly excite the g-mode oscillations of the neutron star when the frequency of the tidal driving force equals the intrinsic g-mode frequencies. We study the g-mode oscillations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dong Lai

We develop a general formalism to treat, in general relativity, the nonradial oscillations of a superfluid neutron star about static (non-rotating) configurations. The matter content of these stars can, as a first approximation, be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer , D. Langlois

Gravitational waves from the final stages of inspiralling binary neutron stars are expected to be one of the most important sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The masses of the components are determinable from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Sergey Postnikov , Madappa Prakash , James Lattimer

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

We constrain the fundamental-mode ($f$-mode) oscillation frequencies of nonrotating neutron stars using a phenomenological Gaussian process model for the unknown dense-matter equation of state conditioned on a suite of gravitational-wave,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Sailesh Ranjan Mohanty , Utkarsh Mali , H. C. Das , Bharat Kumar , Philippe Landry

By extending our recent framework to describe the tidal deformations of a spinning compact object, we compute for the first time the tidal Love numbers of a spinning neutron star to linear order in the angular momentum. The spin of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-03 Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

Gravitational-wave measurements of the tidal deformability of neutron stars could reveal important information regarding their internal structure, the equation of state of high-dense nuclear matter and gravity in strong field regime. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-16 Liang Meng , Dao-Jun Liu

The tidal properties of a neutron star are measurable in the gravitational waves emitted from inspiraling binary neutron stars, and they have been used to constrain the neutron star equation of state. In the same spirit, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Kwing-Lam Leung , Ming-Chung Chu , Lap-Ming Lin