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The merger of close binary systems containing two neutron stars should produce a burst of gravitational waves, as predicted by the theory of general relativity. A reliable estimate of the double-neutron-star merger rate in the Galaxy is…

A massive millisecond magnetar may survive a merger of a neutron star (NS) binary, which would continuously power the merger ejecta. We develop a generic dynamic model for the merger ejecta with energy injection from the central magnetar.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-17 Yun-Wei Yu , Bing Zhang , He Gao

In August 2017, the first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, made it possible to study neutron stars in compact binary systems using gravitational waves. Despite being the loudest gravitational wave event detected to date…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-24 Stephanie M. Brown , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan

Observations of gravitational waves from neutron star mergers open up novel directions for exploring fundamental physics: they offer the first access to the structure of objects with a non-negligible contribution from vacuum energy to their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Csaba Csáki , Cem Eröncel , Jay Hubisz , Gabriele Rigo , John Terning

The third observing run of the LIGO/Virgo/KARGA collaboration reported a few neutron star - black hole (NSBH) merger events. While NSBH mergers have yet to receive extensive theoretical attention, they may have a promising electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Erez Michaely , Smadar Naoz

Globular clusters contain many stars with surface abundance patterns indicating contributions from hydrogen burning products, as seen in the anti-correlated elemental abundances of e.g. sodium and oxygen, and magnesium and aluminium.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-05 Robert G. Izzard , Selma E. de Mink , Onno R. Pols , Norbert Langer , Hugues Sana , Alex de Koter

Merging binaries of compact relativistic objects (neutron stars and black holes) are thought to be progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts and sources of gravitational waves, hence their study is of great importance for astrophysics. Because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 M. V. Medvedev , A. Loeb

We describe the possible electromagnetic signals expected from the magnetospheric interactions of a neutron star binary prior to merger. We find that both radio and X-ray signals of detectable strength are possible. We discuss possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Brad M. S. Hansen , Maxim Lyutikov

We study high-energy emission from the mergers of neutron star binaries as electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves aside from short gamma-ray bursts. The mergers entail significant mass ejection, which interacts with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Hajime Takami , Koutarou Kyutoku , Kunihito Ioka

We discuss the possibility that galactic gravitational wave sources might give burst signals at a rate of several events per year, detectable by state-of-the-art detectors. We are stimulated by the results of the data collected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Eugenio Coccia , Florian Dubath , Michele Maggiore

Binary neutron star mergers are expected to be one of the most promising source of gravitational waves (GW) for the network of laser interferometric and bar detectors becoming operational in the next few years. The merger wave signal is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Oechslin , G. Poghosyan , K. Uryu

Members of the family of pulsar-like stars are distinguished by their different manifestations observed, i.e., radio pulsars, accretion-driven X-ray pulsars, X-ray bursts, anomalous X-ray pulsars/soft gamma-ray repeaters, compact center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renxin Xu

Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA experiments now regularly witness gravitational waves from compact binary mergers: the relativistic collisions of neutron stars and/or stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 T. A. Callister

Pulsars are known to be efficient accelerators that produce copious amounts of relativistic particles and inject them into the Galactic medium. The radiation emitted by such a pulsar wind can be seen from radio through gamma-rays as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleg Kargaltsev , George Pavlov

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

We present a model for pulsar radio eclipses in some binary systems, and test this model for PSRs B1957+20 and J2051-0827. We suggest that in these binaries the companion stars are degenerate dwarfs with strong surface magnetic fields. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Khechinashvili , George Melikidze , Janusz Gil

Gravitational waves produced from the merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) are accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, making it possible to identify the associated host galaxy. We explore how properties of the host galaxies relate to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Susmita Adhikari , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz , Risa H. Wechsler , Zhanpei Fang

Binary neutron star mergers, such as the multimessenger GW170817 event, may produce hypermassive compact objects which are supported against collapse by the internal circulation of the fluid within the star. We compute their unstable modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-03 Peter B. Rau , Armen Sedrakian

Coalescing binary systems (eg pulsars, neutron stars and black holes) are the most likely sources of gravitational radiation, yet to be detected on or near Earth, where the local gravitational field is negligible and the Poincar\'e symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 M. D. Maia

It is thought that neutron stars in low-mass binary systems can accrete matter and angular momentum from the companion star and be spun-up to millisecond rotational periods. During the accretion stage, the system is called a low-mass X-ray…