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We model two mergers of orbiting binary neutron stars, the first forming a black hole and the second a differentially rotating neutron star. We extract gravitational waveforms in the wave zone. Comparisons to a post-Newtonian analysis allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Eric W. Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , David Neilsen , Carlos Palenzuela , Joel E. Tohline

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

We present a scattering amplitude formalism to study the tidal heating effects of nonspinning neutron stars incorporating both worldline effective field theory and relativistic stellar perturbation theory. In neutron stars, tidal heating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 M. V. S. Saketh , Zihan Zhou , Suprovo Ghosh , Jan Steinhoff , Debarati Chatterjee

We study the scattering of boson-star binaries, taking into account three effects: point-mass gravitational, tidal, and short-range scalar-field interactions. We compare analytic results to the scattering angle extracted from four sequences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Thibault Damour , Tamanna Jain , Ulrich Sperhake

Highly accurate models of the gravitational-wave signal from coalescing compact binaries are built by completing analytical computations of the binary dynamics with non-perturbative information from numerical relativity (NR) simulations. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Piero Rettegno , Geraint Pratten , Lucy Thomas , Patricia Schmidt , Thibault Damour

This work is the first in a series of studies aimed at understanding the dynamics of highly eccentric binary neutron stars, and constructing an appropriate gravitational-waveform model for detection. Such binaries are possible sources for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Huan Yang , William E. East , Vasileios Paschalidis , Frans Pretorius , Raissa F. P. Mendes

The study of hyperbolic binary black hole encounters yields an effective probe of the strong field regime of black holes, thus providing an additional channel to test General Relativity. We study the scattering of two black holes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Shaun Swain , Tamanna Jain , Llibert Aresté Saló

Gravitational waves from the collision of binary neutron stars provide a unique opportunity to study the behaviour of supranuclear matter, the fundamental properties of gravity, and the cosmic history of our Universe. However, given the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Gregory Ashton , Tim Dietrich

We perform fully relativistic calculations of binary neutron stars in corotating, circular orbit. While Newtonian gravity allows for a strict equilibrium, a relativistic binary system emits gravitational radiation, causing the system to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 T. W. Baumgarte , G. B. Cook , M. A. Scheel , S. L. Shapiro , S. A. Teukolsky

As gravitational wave instrumentation becomes more sensitive, it is interesting to speculate about subtle effects that could be analyzed using upcoming generations of detectors. One such effect that has great potential for revealing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Cecilia Chirenti , Roman Gold , M. Coleman Miller

We calculate the gravitational radiation produced by the coalescence of inspiraling binary neutron stars in the Newtonian regime using 3-dimensional numerical simulations. The stars are modeled as polytropes and start out in the point-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Xing Zhuge , Joan M. Centrella , Stephen L. W. McMillan

A novel approach to the Effective One-Body description of gravitationally interacting two-body systems is introduced. This approach is based on the post-Minkowskian approximation scheme (perturbation theory in G, without assuming small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Thibault Damour

This article describes a comparison of two calculations of the merger of a binary neutron star (NS) system which is initially within the tidal instability as described by Rasio and Shapiro. The same initial data is used with one simulation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Y. M. Wang , F. Douglas Swesty , Alan C. Calder

Simulations of binary neutron stars have seen great advances in terms of physical detail and numerical quality. However, the spin of the neutron stars, one of the simplest global parameters of binaries, remains mostly unstudied. We present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tim Dietrich , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Bruegmann

A technique for translating the classical scattering function of two gravitationally interacting bodies into a corresponding (effective one-body) Hamiltonian description has been recently introduced [Phys.\ Rev.\ D {\bf 94}, 104015 (2016)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Thibault Damour

We compute the (center-of-mass frame) scattering angle $\chi$ of hyperboliclike encounters of two spinning black holes, at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation level for orbital effects, and at the next-to-next-to-leading order for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

We consider the perturbations of a relativistic star as an initial-value problem. Having discussed the formulation of the problem (the perturbation equations and the appropriate boundary conditions at the centre and the surface of the star)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Gabrielle Allen , Nils Andersson , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Bernard F. Schutz

The orbital dynamics of fast spinning neutron stars encountering a massive Black Hole (BH) with unbounded orbits are investigated using the quadratic-in-spin Mathisson-Papapetrou- Dixon (MPD) formulation. We consider the motion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Kaye Jiale Li , Kinwah Wu , Po Kin Leung , Dinesh Singh

The subsequent observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network will likely provide us with various gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems. For an accurate interpretation of these detections, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Maximiliano Ujevic , Alireza Rashti , Henrique Gieg , Wolfgang Tichy , Tim Dietrich

This thesis details an effort to generate astrophysically interesting solutions to the two-body problem in General Relativity. The thesis consists of two main parts. The first part presents an analytical variational principle for describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian D. Baker
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