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Binary neutron star mergers are expected to generate intense magnetic fields that power relativistic and non-relativistic outflows and shape their multimessenger signatures. These fields likely arise from the turbulent amplification of…

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We perform 3D numerical simulations for merger of equal mass binary neutron stars in full general relativity preparing irrotational binary neutron stars in a quasiequilibrium state as initial conditions. Simulations have been carried out…

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In the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a compact binary coalescence system where the mass of one of the companions is $\leq 5~M_{\odot}$ the nature of the object is ambiguous until the measurements of tidal effects give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-20 Shubhanshu Tiwari , Michael Ebersold , Eleanor Z. Hamilton

We present the first very long-term simulations (extending up to ~140 ms after merger) of binary neutron star mergers with piecewise polytropic equations of state and in full general relativity. Our simulations reveal that at a time of…

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Neutrinos with large self-interactions, arising from exchange of light scalars or vectors with mass $M_\phi\simeq 10{\rm MeV}$, can play a useful role in cosmology for structure formation and solving the Hubble tension. It has been proposed…

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The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) generated by the inspiral and merger of binary neutron stars is traditionally modelled assuming that the inspiral is promptly followed by the collapse of the merger remnant to a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-19 Léonard Lehoucq , Irina Dvorkin , Luciano Rezzolla

The simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational wave emission from merging neutron star binaries would aid greatly in their discovery and interpretation. By studying turbulent amplification of magnetic fields in local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew I. MacFadyen

We present ${\tt NRPMw}$, an analytical model of gravitational-waves from neutron star merger remnants informed using 618 numerical relativity (NR) simulations. ${\tt NRPMw}$ is designed in the frequency domain using a combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Kabir Chakravarti , Alessandro Camilletti , Aviral Prakash , Albino Perego

The spectral properties of the post-merger gravitational-wave signal from a binary of neutron stars encode a variety of information about the features of the system and of the equation of state describing matter around and above nuclear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Konrad Topolski , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

Binary neutron star mergers used to be the most promising candidate for gravitational waves for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, such as advanced LIGO and advanced VIRGO. This was proved by the detection of gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Kenta Kiuchi

Binary neutron star mergers observations are a unique way to constrain fundamental physics and astrophysics at the extreme. The interpretation of gravitational-wave events and their electromagnetic counterparts crucially relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Modelling as a dipole the magnetic interaction of a binary system of neutron stars, we are able to include the magnetic effects in the Newtonian and in the inspiral dynamics of the system using an equivalent one-body description.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Mariana Lira , Juan Carlos Degollado , Claudia Moreno , Darío Núñez

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

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Massive neutron star (NS) with lifetimes of at least several seconds are expected to be the result of a sizable fraction of NS mergers. We study their formation using a large set of numerical relativity simulations. We show that they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 David Radice , Albino Perego , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bing Zhang

We perform searches for gravitational wave memory in the data of two major Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments located in Europe and Australia. Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the primary sources of gravitational waves in…

Gravitational waves (GWs) produce small distortions in the observable distribution of stars in the sky. We describe the characteristic pattern of astrometric deflections created by a specific gravitational waveform called a burst with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Dustin R. Madison

We present a robust method to characterize the gravitational wave emission from the remnant of a neutron star coalescence. Our approach makes only minimal assumptions about the morphology of the signal and provides a full posterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 Katerina Chatziioannou , James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Margaret Millhouse , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish

Gravitational memory effects and the BMS freedoms exhibited at future null infinity have recently been resolved and utilized in numerical relativity simulations. With this, gravitational wave models and our understanding of the fundamental…

We discuss gravitational waves from merging binaries using a Newtonian approach with some inputs from the Post-Newtonian formalism. We show that it is possible to understand the key features of the signal using fundamental physics and also…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jahanvi , Ashish Kumar Meena , J. S. Bagla

Using accurate and fully general-relativistic simulations we assess the effect that magnetic fields have on the gravitational-wave emission produced during the inspiral and merger of magnetized neutron stars. In particular, we show that…

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