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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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , David Radice , Jacob Fields , James M. Stone

Detecting a compact subsolar object would have profound implications in physics, the reach of which depends on the nature of the object. Here we explore such consequences for a putative subsolar-mass gravitational wave event detected by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Francesco Crescimbeni , Gabriele Franciolini , Paolo Pani , Massimo Vaglio

The most promising source of gravitational waves for the planned detectors LIGO and VIRGO are merging compact binaries, i.e., neutron star/neutron star (NS/NS), neutron star/black hole (NS/BH), and black hole/black-hole (BH/BH) binaries. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Curt Cutler , Eanna Flanagan

The formation of compact stellar-mass binaries is a difficult, but interesting problem in astrophysics. There are two main formation channels: In the field via binary star evolution, or in dense stellar systems via dynamical interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Xian Chen , Pau Amaro-Seoane

The LIGO Scientific, Virgo, and KAGRA collaboration has identified two binary neutron star merger candidates, GW170817 and GW190425, along with several binary black hole candidates. While GW170817 was confirmed as a BNS merger through its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Sanika Khadkikar , Divya Singh

The mass loss in putative neutron star to mixed neutron - mirror neutron star transition implies a significant change of orbital period. The precise constancy of the latter can restrict scenarios recently suggested where neutron to mirror…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Itzhak Goldman , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Shmuel Nussinov

Remnants of neutron-star mergers are essentially massive, hot, differentially rotating neutron stars, which are initially strongly oscillating. They represent a unique probe for high-density matter because the oscillations are detectable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Hans-Thomas Janka

Merging binary systems consisting of two collapsed objects are among the most promising sources of high frequency gravitational wave, GW, signals for ground based interferometers. Double neutron star or black hole/neutron star mergers are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dafne Guetta , Luigi Stella

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

Neutron star equations of state with strong phase transitions may support twin stars, hybrid and hadronic stars with the same mass but different tidal deformabilities. The presence of twin stars in the population of merging neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-20 Philippe Landry , Kabir Chakravarti

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,…

With the rapid advancements in next-generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, it is anticipated that $10^3$-$10^5$ binary neutron star (BNS) mergers per year will be detected, with a significant fraction accompanied by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu , Hao Ma , Qingbo Chu

The discovery of the gravitational-wave source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the Universe. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration

Mergers of binaries consisting of two neutron stars, or a black hole and a neutron star, offer a unique opportunity to study a range of physical and astrophysical processes using two different and almost orthogonal probes - gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Ehud Nakar

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

The recent advanced LIGO detections of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes enhance the prospect of exploring binary evolution via gravitational-wave observations of a population of compact-object binaries. In the face of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Ilya Mandel , Will M. Farr , Andrea Colonna , Simon Stevenson , Peter Tiňo , John Veitch

The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is a remarkable astrophysical event where all four fundamental forces interplay dynamically across multiple stages, producing a rich spectrum of multi-messenger signals. These observations present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 S. K. Maurya , A. Errehymy , Ksh. Newton Singh , G. Mustafa , Saibal Ray

Massive (hypermassive and supramassive) neutron stars are likely to be often formed after the merger of binary neutron stars. We explore the evolution process of the remnant massive neutron stars and gravitational waves emitted by them,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Takayuki Muranushi , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The detection of GW230529_181500 suggested the existence of more symmetric black hole-neutron star mergers where the black hole mass can be as low as 2.6 times that of the neutron star. Black hole-neutron star binaries with even more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Ivan Markin , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

Measurements of the properties of binary neutron star systems from gravitational-wave observations require accurate theoretical models for such signals. However, current models are incomplete, as they do not take into account all of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Reetika Dudi , Francesco Pannarale , Tim Dietrich , Mark Hannam , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Frank Ohme , Bernd Bruegmann