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A major science goal of gravitational-wave (GW) observations is to probe the nature of gravity and constrain modifications to General Relativity. An established class of modified gravity theories are scalar-tensor models, which introduce an…

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Scalar-tensor theories are among the most promising alternatives to general relativity that have been developed to account for some long standing issues in our understanding of gravity. Some of these theories predict the existence of a…

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Equation of state (EOS) insensitive relations, so-called universal relations, between the neutron star (NS) compactness, its multipolar tidal deformability coefficients, and between the tidal parameters for binary systems are essential to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Daniel A. Godzieba , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Within scalar-tensor (ST) theories, neutron stars in binary systems experience tidal deformations caused by both their companion and the scalar field. These deformations are strongly correlated to the star's internal structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Eve Dones , Laura Bernard

Gravitational wave measurements of binary neutron star coalescences offer information about the properties of the extreme matter that comprises the stars. Despite our expectation that all neutron stars in the Universe obey the same equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Carl-Johan Haster , Aaron Zimmerman

With the first detections of binary neutron star mergers by gravitational-wave detectors, it proves timely to consider how the internal structure of neutron stars affects the way in which they can be asymmetrically deformed. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson , Jonas P. Pereira

Observations of neutron stars and the precise measurement of their macroscopic properties have provided valuable insights into fundamental physics, both by constraining the behavior of nuclear matter under extreme conditions and by enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Jayana A. Saes , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Nicolás Yunes

We calculate neutron star's moment of inertia and deformabilities using various microscopic equations of state for nuclear and hybrid star configurations. Correlations between the various observables are examined and we confirm several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-28 J. -B. Wei , A. Figura , G. F. Burgio , H. Chen , H. -J. Schulze

There is a growing interest in investigating modified theories of gravity, primarily, with the aim of explaining the universe's accelerated expansion, which has been confirmed by several independent observations. Compact objects, like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 K Nobleson , Tuhin Malik , Sarmistha Banik

In the last few decades, lots of universal relations between different global physical quantities of neutron stars have been proposed to constrain the unobservable or hard to be observed properties of neutron stars. But few of them are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-10 Wenjie Sun , Dehua Wen , Jue Wang

We perform new longterm (15-16 orbits) simulations of coalescing binary neutron stars in numerical relativity using an updated Einstein's equation solver, employing low-eccentricity initial data, and modeling the neutron stars by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-01 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata

The class of scalar-tensor theories with the scalar field coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant has drawn great interest since solutions of spontaneous scalarization were found for black holes in these theories. We contribute to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Rui Xu , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Marcus Thierfelder , Bernd Bruegmann

We investigate the constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars by considering the tidal deformability in the merge of neutron star binaries. In order to extract the most reliable range of uncertainty from theory, we employ models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Young-Min Kim , Yeunhwan Lim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity are natural phenomenological alternatives to General Relativity, where the gravitational interaction is mediated by a scalar degree of freedom, besides the usual tensor gravitons. In regions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 Enrico Barausse , Carlos Palenzuela , Marcelo Ponce , Luis Lehner

We investigate the properties of post-merger remnants of binary neutron star mergers in the framework of Damour-Esposito-Farese-type scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a massive scalar field by numerical relativity simulation. It is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Hao-Jui Kuan , Masaru Shibata , Karim Van Aelst , Kenta Kiuchi

Inference of the equation-of-state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter in neutron-star cores is a principal science goal of X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. In particular, gravitational-wave observations provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rahul Kashyap , Arnab Dhani , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

The thermodynamic relation between pressure and density (i.e. the equation of state) of cold supranuclear matter is critical in describing neutron stars, yet it remains one of the largest uncertainties in nuclear physics. The extraction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-11 Zack Carson , Katerina Chatziioannou , Carl-Johan Haster , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

We study the impact of crust-core connection procedures on various neutron-star properties, especially on the tidal deformability. We consider three types of connection procedures to treat the discontinuity in a nonunified equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Junbo Pang , Hong Shen , Jinniu Hu

Combining new gravitational waveforms derived by long-term (14--16 orbits) numerical-relativity simulations with waveforms by an effective-one-body (EOB) formalism for coalescing binary neutron stars, we construct hybrid waveforms and…

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