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Rossby modes (r-modes) of rotating neutron stars can be excited by the gravitomagnetic forces in coalescing binary systems. The previous study by Flanagan and Racine [Phys. Rev. D 75, 044001 (2007)] showed that this kind of dynamical tide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-16 Sizheng Ma , Hang Yu , Yanbei Chen

A neutron star in an inspiraling binary system is tidally deformed by its companion, and the effect leaves a measurable imprint on the emitted gravitational waves. While the tidal interaction falls within the regime of static tides during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Tristan Pitre , Eric Poisson

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 tidal deformability probability distribution extracted from GW170817 alone, or including multi-messenger information, is confronted to astrophysical and nuclear physics additional constraints within a semi-agnostic approach for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-31 H. Güven , K. Bozkurt , E. Khan , J. Margueron

Over the last few years, the detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron star systems has rekindled our hopes for a deeper understanding of the unknown nature of ultradense matter. In particular, gravitational wave constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-18 P. Laskos-Patkos , P. S. Koliogiannis , A. Kanakis-Pegios , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron-star inspirals carry information on components' masses and tidal deformabilities, but not directly radii, which are measured by electromagnetic observations of neutron stars. To improve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Michał Bejger

The gravitational-wave signal from inspiralling neutron-star--neutron-star (or black-hole--neutron-star) binaries will be influenced by tidal coupling in the system. An important science goal in the gravitational-wave detection of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Guillaume Faye

Dynamical tides of neutron stars in the late stages of binary inspirals provide a viable probe into dense matter through gravitational waves, and potentially trigger electromagnetic precursors. We model the tidal response as a set of driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Yong Gao , Hao-Jui Kuan , Cheng-Jun Xia , Hector O. Silva , Masaru Shibata

The composition of neutron stars at the extreme densities reached in their cores is currently unknown. Besides nuclear matter of normal neutrons and protons, the cores of neutron stars might harbor exotic matter such as deconfined quarks.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Katerina Chatziioannou , Sophia Han

Binary neutron star mergers are unique sources of gravitational waves in multi-messenger astronomy. The inspiral phase of binary neutron stars can emit gravitational waves as chirp signals. The present waveform models of gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-23 RunDong Tang , Wen-Biao Han , XingYu Zhong , Ye Jiang , Ping Shen , Yu Wang

The study of neutron star mergers by the detection of the emitted gravitational waves is one of the most promised tools to study the properties of dense nuclear matter at high densities. It is worth claiming that, at the moment, strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 A. Kanakis-Pegios , P. S. Koliogiannis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

We compute the tidal deformabilities for neutron star merger for equations of state with a strong first order phase transition producing a new separate branch in the mass-radius diagram. A case is found where all three possible pairs of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Jan-Erik Christian , Andreas Zacchi , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

The properties of neutron star matter above nuclear density are not precisely known. Gravitational waves emitted from binary neutron stars during their late stages of inspiral and merger contain imprints of the neutron-star equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman

The neutron star-black hole binary (NSBH) system has been considered one of the promising detection candidates for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as LIGO and Virgo. The tidal effects of neutron stars (NSs) are imprinted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Hee-Suk Cho

We use gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observations of GW170817 to constrain the extent of pressure anisotropy in it. While it is quite likely that the pressure inside a neutron star is mostly isotropic, certain physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Bhaskar Biswas , Sukanta Bose

Tidal deformability of a 1.4 $M_\odot$ neutron star provides a pivotal window into the physics of dense nuclear matter, bridging gravitational-wave(GW), electromagnetic observations and nuclear physics. In this work, we present a novel,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Chun Huang

We study the effect of resonant tidal excitation of inertial modes in neutron stars during binary inspiral. For spin frequencies less than 100 Hz, the phase shift in the gravitational waveform associated with the resonance is small and does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dong Lai , Yanqin Wu

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

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Gastón Creci , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

We study the detectability of gravitational-wave signals from sub-solar mass binary neutron star systems by the current generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. We find that finite size effects from large tidal…