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Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can constrain nuclear matter models predicting the neutron star's equation of state (EOS). Matter effects on the inspiral-merger signal are encoded in the multipolar tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Matteo Breschi , Gregorio Carullo , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We compute tidal signatures in the gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary inspirals in scalar-tensor gravity, where the dominant adiabatic even-parity tidal interactions involve three types of Love numbers that depend on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Gastón Creci , Iris van Gemeren , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

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

Properties of neutron stars in GW170817 are investigated using different equations of state (EoS) involving nucleons, $\Lambda$ hyperons, quarks resulting in $2M_{\odot}$ neutron stars. This calculation is performed using the same EoS for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-02 Sajad A. Bhat , Debades Bandyopadhyay

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars were recently detected for the first time by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, in event GW170817. This detection placed an upper limit on the effective tidal deformability of the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Carolyn Raithel , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

With the remarkable advent of gravitational-wave astronomy, we have shed light on previously shrouded events: compact binary coalescences. Neutron stars are promising (and confirmed) sources of gravitational radiation and it proves timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Fabian Gittins

In this work, we investigate the neutron star structure in conservative $f(R, T)$ gravity with $f(R, T)=R+\lambda T$, where $\lambda$ denotes the matter--geometry coupling. The modified stellar structure equations are solved using realistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Premachand Mahapatra , Prasanta Kumar Das

From the very first multimessenger event of GW170817, clean robust constraints can be obtained for the tidal deformabilities of the two stars involved in the merger, which provides us unique opportunity to study the equation of states…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Ang Li , Zhen-Yu Zhu

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Rui-Xin Yang , Fei Xie , Dao-Jun Liu

The recent direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers (2016, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, no. 6, 061102; no. 24, 241103) opens up an entirely new non-electromagnetic window into the Universe making it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

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

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

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations from Neutron Stars (NS) in a binary system provide an excellent scenario to constrain the nuclear parameters. The investigation of Pratten et al. (2022) has shown that the ignorance of f-mode dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Tathagata Ghosh , Dhruv Pathak , Debarati Chatterjee

Neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) insensitive relations or universal relations (UR) involving neutron star bulk properties play a crucial role in gravitational-wave astronomy. Considering a wide range of equations of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Aditya Vijaykumar , Debarati Chatterjee

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (NSs) have opened unique opportunities to constrain the nuclear equation of state by measuring tidal effects associated with the excitation of characteristic modes of the NSs. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 Pawan Kumar Gupta , Jan Steinhoff , Tanja Hinderer

Recently, an instability due to the nonlinear coupling of p-modes to g-modes in tidally deformed neutron stars in coalescing binaries has been studied in some detail. The result is significant because it could influence the inspiral and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Yixiao Zhou , Fan Zhang

Based on the distribution of tidal deformabilities and component masses of binary neutron star merger GW170817, the parametric equation of states (EOS) are employed to probe the nuclear symmetry energy and the properties of neutron star. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-22 Yuxi Li , Houyuan Chen , Dehua Wen , Jing Zhang

Despite its elegance, the theory of General Relativity is subject to experimental, observational, and theoretical scrutiny to arrive at tighter constraints or an alternative, more preferred theory. In alternative gravity theories, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Bhaskar Biswas , Evangelos Smyrniotis , Ioannis Liodis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 Yiqi Xie , Deep Chatterjee , Gilbert Holder , Daniel E. Holz , Scott Perkins , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

Driven by recent laboratory experiments and astronomical observations, significant advances have deepened our understanding of neutron-star physics. NICER's Pulse Profile Modeling has refined our knowledge of neutron star masses and radii,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Marc Salinas , Jorge Piekarewicz