English
Related papers

Related papers: Binary neutron star populations in the Milky Way

200 papers

Recent pulsar surveys have increased the number of observed double neutron stars (DNS) in our galaxy enough so that observable trends in their properties are starting to emerge. In particular, it has been noted that the majority of DNS have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Catherine Mia Ihm , Vassiliki Kalogera , Krzysztof Belczynski

With over two dozen detections in the Milky Way, double neutron stars (DNSs) provide a unique window into massive binary evolution. We use the POSYDON binary population synthesis code to model DNS populations and compare them to the…

The first multimessenger discovery of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, proved that such mergers can source short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and produce \rprocess elements. The initial merger rate from this single event in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Maya Fishbach , Alexander P. Ji , Wen-fai Fong , Tom Y. Wu , Jillian C. Rastinejad , Aditya Vijaykumar , Hsin-Yu Chen

The detection of electromagnetic radiation (EM) accompanying the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 has revealed that these systems constitute at least a fraction of the progenitors of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Rosalba Perna , M. Celeste Artale , Yi-Han Wang , Michela Mapelli , Davide Lazzati , Cecilia Sgalletta , Filippo Santoliquido

The nature of GW190425, a presumed binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected by the LIGO/Virgo Scientific Collaboration (LVC) with a total mass of $3.4^{+0.3}_{-0.1}$ M$_{\odot}$, remains a mystery. With such a large total mass, GW190425…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-16 Valeriya Korol , Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

The formation and evolution of binary stars is a critical component of several fields in astronomy. The most numerous sources for gravitational wave observatories are inspiraling and/or merging compact binaries, while binary stars are…

We perform a systematic study of merging black hole (BH) binaries with compact star (CS) companions, including black hole--white dwarf (BH--WD), black hole--neutron star (BH--NS) and black hole--black hole (BH--BH) systems. Previous studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Yong Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

We propose a possible binary evolution model for the formation of ultra-long period pulsars (ULPPs). The model involves two key stages: first, a neutron star (NS) in wide binaries undergoes an effective spin-down phase through wind-fed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Ying-Han Mao , Xiang-Dong Li , Dong Lai , Zhu-Ling Deng , Hao-Ran Yang

We report here on two complementary population synthesis studies which relate directly to the formation and evolution of neutron star binaries in globular clusters. In the first, we compute the probability of retaining neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saul Rappaport , Eric Pfahl , Fred Rasio , Philipp Podsiadlowski

Using neural networks, we integrate the ability to account for Doppler smearing due to a pulsar's orbital motion with the pulsar population synthesis package \psrpoppy\ to develop accurate modeling of the observed binary pulsar population.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Nihan Pol , Maura McLaughlin , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathan Garver-Daniels

We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamics of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers from the late stage of the inspiral process up to $\sim 20$ ms after the system has merged, either to form a hyper-massive neutron star (NS) or a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Francesco Maione , Frank Löffler

Making the most of the rapidly increasing population of gravitational-wave detections of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) mergers requires comparing observations with population synthesis predictions. In this work we investigate the…

Six gravitational wave detections have been reported so far, providing crucial insights on the merger rate of double compact objects. We investigate the cosmic merger rate of double neutron stars (DNSs), neutron star-black hole binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo

The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) suite of binary stellar evolution models and synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of both the integrated light from distant stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 J. J. Eldridge , E. R. Stanway , L. Xiao , L. A. S. McClelland , G. Taylor , M. Ng , S. M. L. Greis , J. C. Bray , .

We evaluate the redshift distribution of binary black hole (BBH), black hole - neutron star binary (BHNS) and binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, exploring the main sources of uncertainty: star formation rate (SFR) density, metallicity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-12 Filippo Santoliquido , Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo , Yann Bouffanais , M. Celeste Artale

The formation channels of binary neutron stars (BNSs) remain uncertain. The detection of GW190425 by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) suggests a subpopulation of massive BNSs, possibly formed through unstable "case BB" mass transfer with short merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Alexandre Toubiana , Irina Dvorkin

A binary neutron star (BNS) merger can lead to various outcomes, from indefinitely stable neutron stars, through supramassive (SMNS) or hypermassive (HMNS) neutron stars supported only temporarily against gravity, to black holes formed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Paz Beniamini , Wenbin Lu

The merger rate density evolution of binary compact objects and the properties of their host galaxies carry crucial information to understand the sources of gravitational waves. Here, we present galaxyRate, a new code that estimates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-29 Filippo Santoliquido , Michela Mapelli , M. Celeste Artale , Lumen Boco

Binary population synthesis (BPS) study provides a comprehensive way to understand evolutions of binaries and their end products. Close white dwarf (WD) binaries have crucial characteristics in examining in uence of yetunresolved physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-22 Iminhaji Ablimit , Keiichi Maeda , Xiang-Dong Li

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed third-generation, wide-band gravitational wave (GW) detector which will have an improved detection sensitivity in low frequencies, leading to a longer observation time in the detection band and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-27 Neha Singh , Tomasz Bulik , Aleksandra Olejak