English
Related papers

Related papers: Constraining nuclear equations of state using grav…

200 papers

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

Multi-messenger observations of neutron star (NS) mergers have the potential to revolutionize nuclear astrophysics. They will improve our understanding of nucleosynthesis, provide insights about the equation of state (EOS) of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-24 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

The determination of the equation of state (EOS) of a neutron star (NS) and its maximum mass is very important for understanding the formation and properties of NSs under extreme conditions, but they remain open questions. Short-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Jun-Xiang Huang , Hou-Jun Lü , En-Wei Liang

Neutron-star (NS) merger simulations are conducted for 38 representative microphysical descriptions of high-density matter in order to explore the equation-of-state dependence of the postmerger ring-down phase. The formation of a deformed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Bauswein , H. -T. Janka , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

We develop a non-parametric method for inferring the universal neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) from gravitational wave (GW) observations. Many different possible realizations of the EOS are generated with a Gaussian process…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Philippe Landry , Reed Essick

Observations of the high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the hot and massive remnant of a binary neutron star merger will provide new probes of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). We show that current uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

The observations of PSR J0952-0607 and the second object in GW190814 event indicate the possible existence of supermassive neutron stars. In this work, by using the Constant-Sound-Speed (CSS) parametrization to describe the equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Hongyi Sun , Dehua Wen

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnants complement constraints from the inspiral phase, mass-radius measurements, and microscopic theory by providing information about the neutron-star equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Christian Ecker , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Luciano Rezzolla

Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagnetic observations of the associated kilonovae allow us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Kelsey A. Lund , Rahul Somasundaram , Gail C. McLaughlin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower , Ingo Tews

The Equation of State (EOS) of dense strongly-interacting matter can be probed by astrophysical observations of neutron stars (NS), such as X-ray detections of pulsars or the measurement of the tidal deformability of NSs during the inspiral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Maximiliano Ujevic , Rahul Somasundaram , Tim Dietrich , Jerome Margueron , Ingo Tews

It is anticipated that the gravitational radiation detected in future gravitational wave (GW) detectors from binary neutron star (NS) mergers can probe the high-density equation of state (EOS). We perform the first simulations of binary NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Atul Kedia , Hee Il Kim , In-Saeng Suh , Grant J. Mathews

We report results of a numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of a black hole-neutron star binary with a variety of equations of state (EOSs) modeled by piecewise polytropes. We focus in particular on the dependence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The low density nuclear matter equation of state is strongly constrained by nuclear properties, however, for constraining the high density equation of state it is necessary to resort to indirect information obtained from the observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

The frequencies and damping times of the non radial oscillations of neutron stars are computed for a set of recently proposed equations of state (EOS) which describe matter at supranuclear densites. These EOS are obtained within two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Benhar , V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri

As current gravitational wave (GW) detectors increase in sensitivity, and particularly as new instruments are being planned, there is the possibility that ground-based GW detectors will observe GWs from highly eccentric neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Tim Dietrich , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Brügmann

We study equal and unequal-mass neutron star mergers by means of new numerical relativity simulations in which the general relativistic hydrodynamics solver employs an algorithm that guarantees mass conservation across the refinement levels…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximiliano Ujevic , Bernd Bruegmann

Gravitational-wave observations of inspiralling binary neutron star systems can be used to measure the neutron-star equation of state (EOS) through the tidally induced shift in the waveform phase that depends on the tidal deformability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Benjamin D. Lackey , Leslie Wade

Multimessenger signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are promising tools to infer the largely unknown properties of nuclear matter at densities that are presently inaccessible to laboratory experiments. The gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 Christian Ecker , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Luciano Rezzolla

Exploiting a very large library of physically plausible equations of state (EOSs) containing more than $10^{7}$ members and yielding more than $10^{9}$ stellar models, we conduct a survey of the impact that a neutron-star radius measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Lukas R. Weih , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

Binary neutron star (NS) mergers are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs), as well as candidate progenitors for short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs). Depending on the total initial mass of the system, and the NS equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Simone Dall'Osso , Bruno Giacomazzo , Rosalba Perna , Luigi Stella