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During the last seconds of a binary neutron-star merger, the tidal force can excite stellar oscillation modes to large amplitudes. From the perspective of premerger electromagnetic emissions and next-generation gravitational-wave detectors,…

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We construct new, multivariate empirical relations for measuring neutron star radii and tidal deformabilities from the dominant gravitational wave frequency in the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers. The relations determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Stamatis Vretinaris , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Andreas Bauswein

The data analysis of the gravitational wave signals emitted by coalescing neutron star binaries requires the availability of an accurate analytical representation of the dynamics and waveforms of these systems. We propose an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Tim Dietrich , Thibault Damour

We study the resonant tidal excitation of g modes in coalescing superfluid neutron star (NS) binaries and investigate how such tidal driving impacts the gravitational-wave (GW) signal of the inspiral. Previous studies of this type treated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-06 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg

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

Dynamical tides of neutron stars in the late stages of binary inspirals provide a viable probe into dense matter through gravitational waves, and potentially trigger electromagnetic precursors. We model the tidal response as a set of driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Yong Gao , Hao-Jui Kuan , Cheng-Jun Xia , Hector O. Silva , Masaru Shibata

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

We present a detailed comparison between tidal effective-one-body (EOB) models and new state-of-the-art numerical relativity simulations for non-spinning binary neutron star systems. This comparison is the most extensive one to date,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Tim Dietrich , Tanja Hinderer

Motivated by future opportunities in gravitational-wave astronomy and the ongoing effort to constrain physics under extreme conditions, we consider the signature of individual mode resonances excited during the inspiral of binary systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 P. Pnigouras , N. Andersson , F. Gittins , A. R. Counsell

A compact binary system implicating at least one rotating neutron star undergoes gravitomagnetic tidal resonances as it inspirals toward its final merger. These have a dynamical impact on the phasing of the emitted gravitational waves. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Eric Poisson

We discuss the role of dynamical tidal effects for inspiralling neutron star binaries, focussing on features that may be considered "unmodelled" in gravitational-wave searches. In order to cover the range of possibilities, we consider i)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 N. Andersson , W. C. G. Ho

The gravitational waves produced by binary neutron star mergers offer a unique window into matter behavior under extreme conditions. In this context, we model analytically the effect of matter on the gravitational waves from binary neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Alexander O'Dell , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

We construct closed-form gravitational waveforms (GWs) with tidal effects for the coalescence and merger of binary neutron stars. The method relies on a new set of eccentricity-reduced and high-resolution numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Wolfgang Tichy

Gravitational-wave astronomy with coalescing binary neutron star sources requires the availability of gravitational waveforms with tidal effects accurate up to merger. This article presents an improved version of \TEOBResum, a nonspinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-06 Sarp Akcay , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Francesco Messina , Alessandro Nagar , Néstor Ortiz , Piero Rettegno

Gravitational wave astronomy pipelines rely on template waveform models for searches and parameter estimation purposes. For coalescing binary neutron stars (BNS), such models need to accurately reproduce numerical relativity (NR) up to…

The prevalence of binary stars at close separations implies that many of these systems will interact or merge during the binary's lifetime. This paper presents hydrodynamic simulations of the scenario of binary coalescence through unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Morgan MacLeod , Michelle Vick , Dong Lai , James M. Stone

It has been suggested by Weinberg et al. (2013) that an instability due to the nonlinear coupling of a neutron star's tide to its $p$- and $g$-modes could affect the gravitational-wave phase evolution of a neutron-star binary. Weinberg…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-09 Steven Reyes , Duncan A. Brown

Highly eccentric binary neutron star mergers exhibit unique dynamical and observational signatures compared to quasi-circular ones in terms of their gravitational wave signal and the ejection of matter, leading to different electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Anna Neuweiler , Tim Dietrich , Bernd Brügmann

We study the effect of resonant tidal excitation of inertial modes in neutron stars during binary inspiral. For spin frequencies less than 100 Hz, the phase shift in the gravitational waveform associated with the resonance is small and does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dong Lai , Yanqin Wu

To detect the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from binary neutron stars and extract information about the equation of state of matter at nuclear density, it is necessary to match the signal with a bank of accurate templates. We present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-28 Luca Baiotti , Thibault Damour , Bruno Giacomazzo , Alessandro Nagar , Luciano Rezzolla