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Despite the recent rapid progress in numerical relativity, a convergence order less than the second has so far plagued codes solving the Einstein-Euler system of equations. We report simulations of the inspiral of binary neutron stars in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-16 David Radice , Luciano Rezzolla , Filippo Galeazzi

One of the promising sources of gravitational radiation is a binary system composed of compact stars. It is an important question how the rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit affect the detectable signal. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Mátyás Vasúth , János Majár

Gravitational waves are a prediction of general relativity, and with ground-based detectors now running in their advanced configuration, we will soon be able to measure them directly for the first time. Binaries of stellar-mass black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Xian Chen

Current searches for gravitational waves from compact-object binaries with the LIGO and Virgo observatories employ waveform models with spins aligned (or anti-aligned) with the orbital angular momentum. Here, we derive a new statistic to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-14 Ian Harry , Stephen Privitera , Alejandro Bohé , Alessandra Buonanno

In this paper we study gravitationally bound compact objects sourced by a string theory inspired Born-Infeld scalar field. Unlike many of their canonical scalar field counterparts, these ``boson stars'' do not have to extend out to infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Andrew DeBenedictis , Sasa Ilijic

We present the first computations of quasiequilibrium binary neutron stars with different mass components in general relativity, within the Isenberg-Wilson-Mathews approximation. We consider both cases of synchronized rotation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Keisuke Taniguchi , Eric Gourgoulhon

We present improved post-Newtonian-inspired initial data for non-spinning black-hole binaries, suitable for numerical evolution with punctures. We revisit the work of Tichy et al. [W. Tichy, B. Bruegmann, M. Campanelli, and P. Diener, Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernard J Kelly , Wolfgang Tichy , Manuela Campanelli , Bernard F Whiting

Merging binary neutron stars are thought to be formed predominantly via isolated binary evolution. In this standard formation scenario, the first-born neutron star goes through a recycling process and might be rapidly spinning during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-09 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Gregory Ashton

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

We have developed a new numerical scheme to obtain quasiequilibrium structures of nonaxisymmetric compact stars such as binary neutron star systems as well as the spacetime around those systems in general relativity. Concerning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Fumihiko Usui , Koji Uryu , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

Binary Systems are the most studied sources of gravitational waves. The mechanisms of emission and the behavior of the orbital parameters are well known and can be written in analytic form in several cases. Besides, the strongest indication…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

Binary neutron star mergers are studied using nonlinear 3+1 numerical relativity simulations and the analytical effective-one-body (EOB) model. The EOB model predicts quasiuniversal relations between the mass-rescaled gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Simone Balmelli , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic

The properties of selfinteracting boson stars with different scalar potentials going beyond the commonly used $\phi^4$ ansatz are studied. The scalar potential is extended to different values of the exponent $n$ of the form $V \propto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Sarah Louisa Pitz , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

As current gravitational wave (GW) detectors increase in sensitivity, and particularly as new instruments are being planned, there is the possibility that ground-based GW detectors will observe GWs from highly eccentric neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Tim Dietrich , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Brügmann

The attracting properties of gravity enable matter present in cores to collapse into stars with seven orders of magnitude change in space and time making modelling of star formation a challenging multi-scale process. To circumvent this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Daniel Dalsgaard , Michael Kuffmeier , Troels Haugbølle

We construct a class of time-symmetric initial data sets for the Einstein vacuum equation modeling elementary configurations of multiple ``almost isolated" systems. Each such initial data set consists of a collection of several localized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-20 John Anderson , Justin Corvino , Federico Pasqualotto

We perform the first nonlinear and self-consistent study of the merger and ringdown of a black hole mimicking object with stable light rings. To that end, we numerically solve the full Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations governing the head-on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Nils Siemonsen

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

We present results of numerical computations of quasiequilibrium sequences of binary neutron stars with zero vorticity, in the general relativistic framework. The Einstein equations are solved under the assumption of a conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bonazzola , E. Gourgoulhon , J. -A. Marck

We present a fast method for obtaining fully analytical approximations for gravitational waveforms produced by merging of neutron stars and/or black holes for the earliest stages of the merger process. The obtained analytical formula is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Aleksandra V. Mishakina , Sergei I. Blinnikov