The electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers

E Nakar - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Interpreting binary neutron star mergers: describing the binary neutron star dynamics, modelling gravitational waveforms, and analyzing detections

T Dietrich, T Hinderer, A Samajdar - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2021 - Springer
Gravitational waves emitted from the coalescence of neutron star binaries open a new
window to probe matter and fundamental physics in unexplored, extreme regimes. To extract …

Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network

K Ackley, VB Adya, P Agrawal, P Altin… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars encode information about nuclear matter
at extreme densities, inaccessible by laboratory experiments. The late inspiral is influenced …

Overview of KAGRA: KAGRA science

T Akutsu, M Ando, K Arai, Y Arai, S Araki… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
KAGRA is a newly build gravitational wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm
length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper, one of a series of articles featuring …

Equation of state constraints from the threshold binary mass for prompt collapse of neutron star mergers

A Bauswein, S Blacker, V Vijayan, N Stergioulas… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Using hydrodynamical simulations for a large set of high-density matter equations of state
(EOSs), we systematically determine the threshold mass M thres for prompt black-hole …

Tight multimessenger constraints on the neutron star equation of state from GW170817 and a forward model for kilonova light-curve synthesis

M Nicholl, B Margalit, P Schmidt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron
star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties …

Spin effects on neutron star fundamental-mode dynamical tides: Phenomenology and comparison to numerical simulations

J Steinhoff, T Hinderer, T Dietrich, F Foucart - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals contain information on strongly
interacting matter in unexplored, extreme regimes. Extracting this requires robust theoretical …

Systematics of prompt black-hole formation in neutron star mergers

A Bauswein, S Blacker, G Lioutas, T Soultanis… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
This study addresses the collapse behavior of neutron star (NS) mergers expressed through
the binary threshold mass M thres for prompt black-hole (BH) formation, which we determine …

Total r-process Yields of Milky Way Neutron Star Mergers

EM Holmbeck, JJ Andrews - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
While it is now known that the mergers of double neutron star binary systems (NSMs) are
copious producers of heavy elements, there remains much speculation about whether they …

Measuring the Hubble Constant of Binary Neutron Star and Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences: Bright Sirens and Dark Sirens

J Yu, Z Liu, X Yang, Y Wang, P Zhang… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of gravitational waves (GW) provide us with a new probe to study the Universe.
GW events can be used as standard sirens if their redshifts are measured. Normally …