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Binary neutron star (BNS) post-merger gravitational-wave emission can occur in the aftermath of a BNS merger -- provided the system avoids prompt collapse to a black hole -- as a quasistable hypermassive remnant experiences quadrupolar…

The next generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors -- Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) will have distance horizons up to $\mathcal{O}(10)$ Gpc for detecting binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. This will make them ideal for…

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The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has expanded efforts to understand the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter. These measurements provide new constraints on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-24 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagnetic observations of the associated kilonovae allow us to…

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In the future, the third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors, exemplified by the Einstein Telescope (ET), will be operational. The detection rate of GW from binary neutron star (BNS) is expected to reach approximately $10^4$…

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We probe the intrinsic differences in simulated gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, arising from varying approaches to incorporating thermal effects in numerical-relativity modeling. We consider a hybrid…

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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

Bayesian hierarchical inference of phenomenological parameterized neutron star equations of state (EoS) from multiple gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers is of fundamental importance in improving our understanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Anarya Ray , Michael Camilo , Jolien Creighton , Shaon Ghosh , Soichiro Morisaki

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

The observations of optical and near-infrared counterparts of binary neutron star mergers not only enrich our knowledge about the abundance of heavy elements in the Universe, or help reveal the remnant object just after the merger as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Zhenyu Zhu , Ang Li , Tong Liu

The difficulty in describing the equation of state (EoS) for nuclear matter at densities above the saturation density ($\rho_0$) has led to the emergence of a multitude of models based on different assumptions and techniques. These EoSs,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Ameya Thete , Kinjal Banerjee , Tuhin Malik

The post-merger phase of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers encodes valuable information about the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear matter. Extracting this information from the analysis of the post-merger waveforms remains challenging…

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Neutron star observations, including direct mass and radius measurements as well as the analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted by stellar mergers, provide valuable and unique insights into the properties of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Aleksi Vuorinen

Over the past decade, an abundance of information from neutron-star observations, nuclear experiments and theory has transformed our efforts to elucidate the properties of dense matter. However, at high densities relevant to the cores of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Sunny Ng , Isaac Legred , Lami Suleiman , Philippe Landry , Lyla Traylor , Jocelyn Read

Multi-messenger astronomy was galvanized by the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and electromagnetic (EM) emission from the subsequent kilonova and short gamma ray burst. Maximizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Matt Nicholl , Isabelle Worssam , Benjamin P. Gompertz

Observations of the high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the hot and massive remnant of a binary neutron star merger will provide new probes of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). We show that current uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

Multimessenger signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are promising tools to infer the largely unknown properties of nuclear matter at densities that are presently inaccessible to laboratory experiments. The gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 Christian Ecker , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Luciano Rezzolla

We construct an efficient parameterization of the pure neutron-matter equation of state (EoS) that incorporates the uncertainties from both chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) and phenomenological potential calculations. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Praveer Tiwari , Dake Zhou , Bhaskar Biswas , Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has intensified efforts towards the understanding of the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. In this letter, we compare…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-18 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

The equations of state (EoSs) governing neutron star (NS) matter obtained for both non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field models are systematically confronted with a diverse set of terrestrial data and astrophysical observations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 Sk Md Adil Imam , Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência , B. K. Agrawal