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As neutron stars merge they can approach very high nuclear density. Here, we summarized recent results for the evolution and gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star mergers using a a variety of nuclear equations of state with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Grant J. Mathews , Atul Kedia , Hee Il Kim , In-Saeng Suh

We study the dark matter effects on the nuclear matter parameters characterising the equation of states of super dense neutron-rich nucleonic-matter. The observables of the nuclear matter, i.e. incompressibility, symmetry energy and its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , Takashi Nakatsukasa , Ang Li , S. K. Patra

Gravitational waves provide us with an extraordinary tool to study the matter inside neutron stars. In particular, the postmerger signal probes an extreme temperature and density regime and will help reveal information about the equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Anna Puecher , Tim Dietrich , Ka Wa Tsang , Chinmay Kalaghatgi , Soumen Roy , Yoshinta Setyawati , Chris Van Den Broeck

Neutron stars are unique cosmic laboratories for the exploration of matter under extreme conditions of density and neutron-proton asymmetry. Due to their enormous dynamic range, neutron stars display a myriad of exotic states of matter that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-18 J. Piekarewicz

The increase in the sensitivity of gravitational wave interferometers will bring additional detections of binary black hole and double neutron star mergers. It will also very likely add many merger events of black hole - neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-06 Bhavesh Khamesra , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Pablo Laguna

Gravitational waves generated by the final merger of compact binary systems depend on the structure of the binary's members. If the binary contains neutron stars, measuring such waves can teach us about the properties of matter at extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott A. Hughes

Binary neutron star mergers are rich laboratories for physics, accessible with ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. If a neutron star remnant survives the merger, it can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-13 Sharan Banagiri , Michael W. Coughlin , James Clark , Paul D. Lasky , M. A. Bizouard , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Vuk Mandic

In this review we highlight a few physical properties of neutron stars and their theoretical treatment inasmuch as they can be useful for nuclear and particle physicists concerned with matter at finite density (and newly, temperature).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-23 Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Eva Lope-Oter

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

GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest observed black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Ivan Markin , Anna Puecher , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

The very first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star binary merger, GW170817, exceeded all expectations. The event was relatively nearby, which may point to a relatively high merger rate. It was possible to extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Andreas Bauswein

The groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers and, most recently, coalescing neutron stars started a new era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and revolutionized our understanding of the Cosmos. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Plamen G. Krastev

One of the key challenges of real-time detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers is the computational cost of conventional matched-filtering and Bayesian inference approaches. In particular, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Plamen G. Krastev , Kiranjyot Gill , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

We present a proof-of-concept study, based on numerical-relativity simulations, of how gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star merger remnants can probe the nature of matter at extreme densities. Phase transitions and extra degrees of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-16 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Walter Del Pozzo , Luke F. Roberts , Christian D. Ott

We investigate the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties using the relativistic mean-field theory. By incorporating the dark matter model, we explore how dark matter parameters, specifically dark matter mass and Fermi momentum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

Gravitational-wave observations provide a unique window into the fundamental nature of massive objects. In particular, neutron star equations of state have been constrained due to the success of gravitational wave observatories. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Nguyen Thi Lan Anh , Peter Lott , Quynh Lan Nguyen

We investigate the constraints on the neutron star equation of state (EoS) and nuclear properties achievable with third-generation gravitational wave detectors using the Fisher information matrix approach within the relativistic mean field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhenyu Zhu , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The accumulation of certain types of dark matter particles in neutron star cores due to accretion over long timescales can lead to the formation of a mini black hole. In this scenario, the neutron star is destabilized and implodes to form a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Divya Singh , Anuradha Gupta , Emanuele Berti , Sanjay Reddy , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Cosmological observations can be used to weigh neutrinos, but this method is model-dependent, with results relying on the cosmological model considered. If we consider interactions between dark energy and dark matter, the neutrino mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Lu Feng , Tao Han , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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