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The combined detection of a binary neutron-star merger in both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation spanning the entire spectrum -- GW170817 / AT2017gfo / GRB170817A -- marks a breakthrough in the field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich , Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

With the recent dawn of the multi-messenger astronomy era a new window has opened to explore the constituents of matter and their interactions under extreme conditions. One of the pending challenges of modern physics is to probe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Konstantin Otto , Micaela Oertel , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

Observations of neutron stars (NSs) by the LIGO-Virgo and NICER collaborations have provided reasonably precise measurements of their various macroscopic properties. In this paper, we employ a Bayesian framework to combine them and place…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Bhaskar Biswas , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi , Sukanta Bose

The merger of binary neutron-stars systems combines in a single process: extreme gravity, copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics, and electromagnetic processes that can lead to astrophysical signatures observable at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-21 Luca Baiotti , Luciano Rezzolla

For core-collapse and neutron star merger simulations it is important to have at hand adequate equations of state, describing the underlying dense and hot matter as realistically as possible. Here, we present two newly constructed equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-15 M. Fortin , M. Oertel , C. Providência

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

A number of works have shown that important information on the equation of state of matter at nuclear density can be extracted from the gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron-star binaries. We present a comprehensive analysis of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

In this study, my main goal is to examine the nuclear matter properties across a wide range of conditions, such as temperature, density, asymmetry, pressure, and magnetic field. Understanding the effect of these factors on nuclear matter is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Vishal Parmar

The modeling of many neutron star observables incorporates the microphysics of both the stellar crust and core, which is tied intimately to the properties of the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS). We explore the predictions of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 W. G. Newton , M. Gearheart , De-Hua Wen , Bao-An Li

We propose that ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are produced in binary neutron star mergers. This scenario can account for the heretofore inexplicable narrow rigidity range of UHECRs, because the jets of BNS mergers are generated by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Glennys R. Farrar

An equation of state (EoS) for symmetric nuclear matter is constructed using the density dependent M3Y effective interaction and extended for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Theoretically obtained values of symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 D. N. Basu , Partha Roy Chowdhury , Abhishek Mishra

Fully general-relativistic binary-neutron-star (BNS) merger simulations with quark-hadron crossover (QHC) equations of state (EOSs) are studied for the first time. In contrast to EOSs with purely hadronic matter or with a first-order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-18 Yong-Jia Huang , Luca Baiotti , Toru Kojo , Kentaro Takami , Hajime Sotani , Hajime Togashi , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Shigehiro Nagataki , Yi-Zhong Fan

Neutron stars (NS) are compact objects with strong gravitational fields, and a matter composition subject to extreme physical conditions. The properties of strongly interacting matter at ultra-high densities and temperatures impose a big…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 R. V. Lobato , E. V. Chimanski , C. A. Bertulani

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

Binary neutron-star mergers offer crucial insights into the matter properties of neutron stars. We present the possible imprints in the gravitational wave signal from the nature of phase transition from such events. Our study employs a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Sagnik Chatterjee , Shamim Haque , Kamal Krishna Nath , Rana Nandi , Ritam Mallick

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy opens up an entirely new window on the Universe to probe the equations of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter. With the advent of next generation GW detectors, measuring the gravitational radiation from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-08 F. J. Fattoyev , W. G. Newton , Bao-An Li

Ab initio methods using weakly interacting nucleons give a good description of condensed nuclear matter up to densities comparable to the nuclear saturation density. At higher densities palpable strong interactions between overlapping…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Niko Jokela , Matti Jarvinen , Govert Nijs , Jere Remes

Within the parameter space of equation of state (EOS) of dense neutron-rich matter limited by existing constraints mainly from terrestrial nuclear experiments, we investigate how the neutron star maximum mass $M_{\rm{max}}>2.01\pm0.04$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li , Jun Xu

Neutron stars are the densest objects known in our visible universe. Properties of matter inside a neutron star are encoded in its equation of state, which has wide-ranging uncertainty from a theoretical perspective. With the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Bhaskar Biswas

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