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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…

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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…

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We present numerical relativity simulations of nine-orbit equal-mass binary neutron star covering the quasicircular late inspiral and merger. The extracted gravitational waveforms are analyzed for convergence and accuracy. Second order…

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Using our new Post-Newtonian SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) code, we study the final coalescence and merging of neutron star (NS) binaries. We vary the stiffness of the equation of state (EOS) as well as the initial binary mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio , Justin B. Manor

The Backwards-One-Body (BOB) model provides a fully analytical and physically motivated description of the merger-ringdown gravitational radiation emanating from a black hole binary merger. We perform a comprehensive validation of BOB for…

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Driven by advances in scattering amplitudes and worldline-based methods, recent years have seen significant progress in our ability to calculate gravitational two-body scattering observables. These observables effectively encapsulate the…

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The subsequent observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network will likely provide us with various gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems. For an accurate interpretation of these detections, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Maximiliano Ujevic , Alireza Rashti , Henrique Gieg , Wolfgang Tichy , Tim Dietrich

The Effective One Body (EOB) formalism is an analytical approach which aims at providing an accurate description of the motion and radiation of coalescing binary black holes with arbitrary mass ratio. We review the basic elements of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-10 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

We demonstrate by a large set of merger simulations for symmetric binary neutron stars (NSs) that there is a tight correlation between the frequency peak of the postmerger gravitational-wave (GW) emission and the physical properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Bauswein , H. -Th. Janka

Strategies to model the inspiral, merger and ringdown gravitational waveform of coalescing binaries are restricted in parameter space by the coverage of available numerical-relativity simulations. When more numerical waveforms become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-10 Yoshinta Eka Setyawati , Frank Ohme , Sebastian Khan

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

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network in the upcoming A+ era with upgrades of both Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will enable more frequent and precise observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, improving constraints on the neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexis Boudon , Hong Qi , Jean-François Coupechoux , Philippe Landry , Viola Sordini

Gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron star coalescences carry information about the star's equation of state in their tidal signatures. A major issue in the inference of the tidal parameters (or directly of the equation of state)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Rossella Gamba , Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Michalis Agathos , Alessandro Nagar

To establish a self-consistent effective one-body (EOB) theory that describes the dynamical evolution of binary systems based on the post-Minkowskian (PM) approximation, where the Hamiltonian, radiation reaction force, and waveforms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long

Measurements of the properties of binary neutron star systems from gravitational-wave observations require accurate theoretical models for such signals. However, current models are incomplete, as they do not take into account all of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Reetika Dudi , Francesco Pannarale , Tim Dietrich , Mark Hannam , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Frank Ohme , Bernd Bruegmann

We demonstrate Bayesian analyses of the complete gravitational-wave spectrum of binary neutron star mergers events with the next-generation detector Einstein Telescope. Our mock analyses are performed for 20 different signals using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulia Huez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba

The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity in waveform models could introduce significant biases in…

We describe a general procedure to generate spinning, precessing waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ringdown stages in the effective-one-body (EOB) approach. The procedure uses a precessing frame in which precession-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

A binary neutron star (BNS) merger event has recently been observed in gravitational waves (GWs). As in the case of binary black holes, GWs generated by BNS consist of inspiral, merger, and post-merger components. Detecting the latter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Huan Yang , Vasileios Paschalidis , Kent Yagi , Luis Lehner , Frans Pretorius , Nicolas Yunes

We perform a Bayesian analysis of the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) based on a wide set of Skyrme functionals, derived from previous nuclear physics inferences. The novelty of this approach lies in starting from the full…

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