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This article presents a study of the sufficient accuracy of post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms for the most demanding usage case: parameter estimation of strong sources in advanced gravitational wave detectors. For black hole…

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We report results of numerical relativity simulations for {\it new} 26 non-spinning binary neutron star systems with 6 grid resolutions using an adaptive mesh refinement numerical re\ lativity code {\tt SACRA-MPI}. The finest grid spacing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Kenta Kiuchi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

The combined observation of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars marks the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves (GWs). The development of accurate gravitational…

The equation of state plays a critical role in the physics of the merger of two neutron stars. Recent numerical simulations with microphysical equation of state suggest the outcome of such events depends on the mass of the neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Clark , A. Bauswein , L. Cadonati , H. -T. Janka , C. Pankow , N. Stergioulas

(Abridged) In this paper we present a compilation of results from our most advanced neutron star merger simulations, including a description of the employed numerical procedures and a more complete overview over a large number of computed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

Binary neutron-star systems represent one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves. In order to be able to extract important information, notably about the equation of state of matter at nuclear density, it is necessary to have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-13 Luca Baiotti , Thibault Damour , Bruno Giacomazzo , Alessandro Nagar , Luciano Rezzolla

Neutron star mergers are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for advanced ground-based detectors. These mergers are also expected to power bright electromagnetic signals, in the form of short gamma-ray bursts,…

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

We report simulations of the inspiral and merger of binary neutron stars performed with \texttt{WhiskyTHC}, the first of a new generation of numerical relativity codes employing higher than second-order methods for both the spacetime and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-03 David Radice , Luciano Rezzolla , Filippo Galeazzi

The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Denis Martynov

The numerical modeling of binary neutron star mergers has become a subject of much interest in recent years. While a full and accurate model of this phenomenon would require the evolution of the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Douglas Swesty , Edward Y. M. Wang , Alan C. Calder

Gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers provide valuable information about neutron star structure and the equation of state of dense nuclear matter. Numerous methods have been proposed to analyze the population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Jacob Golomb , Colm Talbot

Accurate and reliable gravitational waveform models are crucial in determining the properties of compact binary mergers. In particular, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will require more accurate waveforms to avoid biases in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Adrian Abac , Felip A. Ramis Vidal , Marta Colleoni , Anna Puecher , Alejandra Gonzalez , Tim Dietrich

Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

Gravitational waves in the postmerger phase of binary neutron star mergers may become detectable with planned upgrades of existing gravitational-wave detectors or with more sensitive next-generation detectors. The construction of template…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Dimitrios Pesios , Ioannis Koutalios , Dimitris Kugiumtzis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Nuclear reactions may affect gravitational-wave signals from neutron-star mergers, but the impact is uncertain. In order to quantify the effect, we compare two numerical simulations representing intuitive extremes. In one case reactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Peter Hammond , Ian Hawke , Nils Andersson

Gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron star coalescences carry information about the star's equation of state in their tidal signatures. A major issue in the inference of the tidal parameters (or directly of the equation of state)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Rossella Gamba , Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Michalis Agathos , Alessandro Nagar

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

Gravitational wave astronomy has established its role in measuring the equation of state governing cold supranuclear matter. To date and in the near future, gravitational wave measurements from neutron star binaries are likely to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Ka Wa Tsang , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

We present results from three-dimensional general relativistic simulations of binary neutron star coalescences and mergers using public codes. We considered equal mass models where the baryon mass of the two Neutron Stars (NS) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-09 Francesco Maione , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Frank Löffler