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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

We discuss the nature of the various modes of pulsation of superfluid neutron stars using comparatively simple Newtonian models. The matter in these stars is described in terms of a two-fluid model, where one fluid is the neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

In this paper we investigate the effect of a pinned superfluid component on the gravitational wave emission of a steadily rotating deformed neutron star. We show that the superfluid pinning allows the possibility for there to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. I. Jones

Neutron stars are a remarkable marriage of Einstein's theory of general relativity with nuclear physics. Their interiors harbor extreme matter that cannot be probed in the laboratory. At such high densities and pressures, their cores may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-10 Nicolas Yunes , M. Coleman Miller , Kent Yagi

Detection of gravitational waves from accreting neutron stars (NSs) in our galaxy, due to ellipticity or internal oscillation, would be a breakthrough in our understanding of compact objects and explain the absence of NSs rotating near the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Watts , Badri Krishnan , Lars Bildsten , Bernard Schutz

We present a novel method to efficiently search for long-duration gravitational wave transients emitted by new-born neutron star remnants of binary neutron star coalescences or supernovae. The detection of these long-transient gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Joan-René Mérou , Rodrigo Tenorio , Alicia M. Sintes

A world-wide array of highly sensitive interferometers stands poised to usher in a new era in astronomy with the first direct detection of gravitational waves. The data from these instruments will provide a unique perspective on extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Neil J. Cornish

We develop a general formalism to treat, in general relativity, the nonradial oscillations of a superfluid neutron star about static (non-rotating) configurations. The matter content of these stars can, as a first approximation, be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer , D. Langlois

The interiors of mature neutron stars are expected to be superfluid. Superfluidity of matter on the microscopic scale can have a number of large scale, potentially observable consequences, as the superfluid component of the star can now…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

Since the last Amaldi meeting in 1997 we have learned that the r-modes of rapidly rotating neutron stars are unstable to gravitational radiation reaction in astrophysically realistic conditions. Newborn neutron stars rotating more rapidly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin J. Owen

We show here how the internal structure of a neutron star can be inferred from its gravitational wave spectrum. Under the premise that the frequencies and damping rates of a few $w$-mode oscillations are found, we apply an inversion scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. K. Tsui , P. T. Leung

We present an approach to detecting (linear) gravitational wave memory in a Galactic core-collapse supernova using current interferometers. Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity that has yet to be…

Neutron stars accreting matter from low-mass binary companions are observed to undergo bursts of X-rays due to the thermonuclear explosion of material on the neutron star surface. We use recent results on superfluid and superconducting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-17 Wynn C. G. Ho

Gravitational waves carry unique information about high-energy astrophysical events such as the inspiral and merger of neutron stars and black holes, core collapse in massive stars, and other sources. Large gravitational wave (GW) detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Peter S. Shawhan

We study non-radial oscillations of neutron stars with superfluid baryons, in a general relativistic framework, including finite temperature effects. Using a perturbative approach, we derive the equations describing stellar oscillations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-09 L. Gualtieri , E. M. Kantor , M. E. Gusakov , A. I. Chugunov

The presence of superfluid phases in the interior of a neutron star affects its dynamics, as neutrons can flow relative to the non-superfluid (normal) components of the star with little or no viscosity. A probe of superfluidity comes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 Marco Antonelli , Alessandro Montoli , Pierre Pizzochero

We investigate the effect of a pinned superfluid component on the gravitational wave emission of a rotating neutron star. Pinning of superfluid vortices to the flux-tubes in the outer core (where the protons are likely to form a type-II…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-29 Brynmor Haskell , Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

Gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations can provide new insights into the nature of matter at supra-nuclear densities inside neutron stars. Improvements in electromagnetic and gravitational wave sensing instruments continue to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Shawn Rosofsky , Roman Gold , Cecilia Chirenti , E. A. Huerta , M. Coleman Miller

The global network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors (the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo) is sensitive at the frequency range corresponding to relativistic stellar-mass compact objects. Among the promising types of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-05 Michał Bejger

Gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals contain information about the equation of state of supranuclear matter. In the absence of definitive experimental evidence that determines the correct equation of state, a number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-05 Katerina Chatziioannou , Kent Yagi , Antoine Klein , Neil Cornish , Nicolas Yunes