English
Related papers

Related papers: Rethinking Resonance Detectability during Binary N…

200 papers

Although tidal dissipation in binary stars has been studied for over a century, theoretical predictions have yet to match the observed properties of binary populations. This work quantitatively examines the recent proposal of tidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 J. J. Zanazzi , Yanqin Wu

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

Detection of gravitational waves from the inspiral phase of binary neutron star coalescence will allow us to measure the effects of the tidal coupling in such systems. These effects will be measurable using 3rd generation gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Chris Messenger , Jocelyn Read

Tidal interaction is a unique, detectable signature in gravitational wave signals from inspiraling binary neutron stars (BNSs), which can be used to constrain the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS). The tidal interaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Joseph Bretz , Hang Yu

We present numerical relativity simulations of nine-orbit equal-mass binary neutron star covering the quasicircular late inspiral and merger. The extracted gravitational waveforms are analyzed for convergence and accuracy. Second order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Marcus Thierfelder , Bernd Bruegmann

The gravitational wave signal of binary compact objects has two main contributions at frequencies below the characteristic merger frequency: the gravitational wave signal associated with the early inspiral stage of the binary and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Silvia Gasparotto , Gabriele Franciolini , Valerie Domcke

Gravitational waves from neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers that undergo tidal disruption provide a potential avenue to study the equation of state of neutron stars and hence the behaviour of matter at its most extreme densities. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Teagan A. Clarke , Lani Chastain , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

A neutron star (NS) in a binary system deforms due to the companion's tidal gravitational field. As the binary inspirals due to gravitational wave (GW) emission, the NS's deformation evolves; this evolution is typically modeled as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 K. J. Kwon , Hang Yu , Tejaswi Venumadhav

Detection and parameter estimation of binary neutron star merger remnants can shed light on the physics of hot matter at supranuclear densities. Here we develop a fast, simple model that can generate gravitational waveforms, and show it can…

We examine the development and detectability of the $m=1$ instability in the remnant of binary neutron star mergers. The detection of the gravitational mode associated with the $m=1$ degree of freedom could potentially reveal details of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-22 Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela , Patrick Motl

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

Previous theoretical works using the pre-merger orbital evolution of coalescing neutron stars to constrain properties of dense nuclear matter assume a gravitational wave phase uncertainty of a few radians, or about a half cycle. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 Wynn C. G. Ho , Nils Andersson

We study how the neutron-star equation of state affects the onset of the dynamical instability in the equations of motion for inspiraling neutron-star binaries near coalescence. A combination of relativistic effects and Newtonian tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Dong Lai , Alan G. Wiseman

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) and black hole/neutron star (BHNS) inspirals are primary sources for detection by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The tidal forces acting on the neutron…

During the last seconds of a binary neutron-star merger, the tidal force can excite stellar oscillation modes to large amplitudes. From the perspective of premerger electromagnetic emissions and next-generation gravitational-wave detectors,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Alexis Reboul-Salze , Aurélie Astoul , Hao-Jui Kuan , Arthur G. Suvorov

We study the properties of remnants formed in prompt-collapse binary neutron star mergers. We consider non-spinning binaries over a range of total masses and mass ratios across a set of 22 equations of state, totaling 107 numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Arnab Dhani , Alessandro Camilletti , David Radice , Rahul Kashyap , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego

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

Gravitational-wave signals from coalescing binary neutron stars can yield important information about the properties of nuclear-matter equation of state from the early part of the signal through tidal effects to the properties and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-13 Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Lap-Ming Lin , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

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…

We present an effective, low-dimensionality frequency-domain template for the gravitational wave signal from the stellar remnants from binary neutron star coalescence. A principal component decomposition of a suite of numerical simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Deirdre Shoemaker