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Recently it was shown that slowly rotating neutron stars exhibit an interesting correlation between their moment of inertia $I$, their quadrupole moment $Q$, and their tidal deformation Love number $\lambda$ (the I-Love-Q relations),…

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The properties of neutron star are studied in the framework of relativistic Hartree-Fock (RHF) model with realistic nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions, i.e. Bonn potentials. The strong repulsion of $NN$ interaction at short range is…

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The distance-inclination degeneracy limits gravitational-wave parameter estimation of compact binary mergers. Although the degeneracy can be partially broken by including higher-order modes or precession, these effects are suppressed in…

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Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems can shed light on the currently unknown dense matter equation of state. The equation of state determines a large number of neutron star properties, such as tidal deformability,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Natalie Williams , Anna Puecher , Guilherme Grams , César V. Flores , Tim Dietrich

The exterior gravitational field of a slowly-rotating neutron star can be characterized by its multipole moments, the first few being the neutron star mass, moment of inertia, and quadrupole moment to quadratic order in spin. In principle,…

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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

Neutron stars are ideal astrophysical sources to probe general relativity due to their large compactnesses and strong gravitational fields. For example, binary pulsar and gravitational wave observations have placed stringent bounds on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kent Yagi , Michael Stepniczka

The physical significance of tidal deformation in astronomical systems has long been known. The recently discovered universal I-Love-Q relations, which connect moment of inertia, quadrupole tidal Love number, and spin-induced quadrupole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Kenny L. S. Yip , P. T. Leung

Tidal deformabilities are one of the observable quantities characterizing neutron stars, which are strongly associated with the stellar compactness, the ratio of the stellar mass to the radius. In addition to the tidal deformability, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Hajime Sotani

Gravitational-wave cosmology began in 2017 with the observation of the gravitational waves emitted in the merger of two neutron stars, and the coincident observation of the electromagnetic emission that followed. Although only a $30\%$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Deep Chatterjee , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Gilbert Holder , Daniel E. Holz , Scott Perkins , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors may be able to constrain the nuclear equation of state using the early, low frequency portion of the signal of detected neutron star - neutron star inspirals. In this early adiabatic regime, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Eanna E. Flanagan , Tanja Hinderer

Coalescing compact binaries with neutron star or black hole components provide the most promising sources of gravitational radiation for detection by the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/TAMA laser interferometers now under construction. This fact has…

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Unimodular gravity is a modified theory with respect to general relativity by an extra condition that the determinant of the metric is fixed. Especially, if the energy-momentum tensor is not imposed to be conserved separately, a new…

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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

We investigate quasi-universal relations in neutron stars linking standard observables, such as tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) and normalized moment of inertia ($\bar{I}$), with normalized curvature scalars in general relativity. These…

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The Love numbers of a gravitating body are response coefficients encoding its tidal deformability. In compact binary systems, they appear in the gravitational waveform during the inspiral phase and will be measurable by upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 María J. Rodríguez , Luca Santoni , Adam R. Solomon

The equation of state dependence of neutron star's astrophysical features modeling is key to our understanding of dense matter. However, there exists a series of almost equation-of-state independent relations reported in the literature,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-20 Lami Suleiman , Jocelyn Read

Neutron stars and quark stars are not only characterized by their mass and radius, but also by how fast they spin, through their moment of inertia, and how much they can be deformed, through their Love number and quadrupole moment. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-19 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

The study of neutron stars, or more general compact stars, is a topic of central interest in nuclear astrophysics. Furthermore, neutron stars serve as the only physical systems whose properties can be used to infer information on cold and…

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