scholarly journals Equation-of-state constraints and the QCD phase transition in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy

Author(s):  
Andreas Bauswein ◽  
Niels-Uwe Friedrich Bastian ◽  
David Blaschke ◽  
Katerina Chatziioannou ◽  
James Alexander Clark ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 1293-1296 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUILHERME F. MARRANGHELLO ◽  
CÉSAR A. Z. VASCONCELLOS ◽  
JOSÉ A. de FREITAS PACHECO ◽  
MANFRED DILLIG ◽  
HÉLIO T. COELHO

We discuss, in this work, new aspects related to the emission of gravitational waves by neutron stars, which undergo a phase transition, from nuclear to quark matter, in its inner core. Such a phase transition would liberate around 1052–53 erg of energy in the form of gravitational waves which, if detected, may shed some light in the structure of these compact objects and provide new insights on the equation of state of nuclear matter.


Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Hanauske ◽  
Luke Bovard ◽  
Elias Most ◽  
Jens Papenfort ◽  
Jan Steinheimer ◽  
...  

The long-awaited detection of a gravitational wave from the merger of a binary neutron star in August 2017 (GW170817) marks the beginning of the new field of multi-messenger gravitational wave astronomy. By exploiting the extracted tidal deformations of the two neutron stars from the late inspiral phase of GW170817, it is now possible to constrain several global properties of the equation of state of neutron star matter. However, the most interesting part of the high density and temperature regime of the equation of state is solely imprinted in the post-merger gravitational wave emission from the remnant hypermassive/supramassive neutron star. This regime was not observed in GW170817, but will possibly be detected in forthcoming events within the current observing run of the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration. Numerous numerical-relativity simulations of merging neutron star binaries have been performed during the last decades, and the emitted gravitational wave profiles and the interior structure of the generated remnants have been analysed in detail. The consequences of a potential appearance of a hadron-quark phase transition in the interior region of the produced hypermassive neutron star and the evolution of its underlying matter in the phase diagram of quantum cromo dynamics will be in the focus of this article. It will be shown that the different density/temperature regions of the equation of state can be severely constrained by a measurement of the spectral properties of the emitted post-merger gravitational wave signal from a future binary compact star merger event.


Particles ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrique Gieg ◽  
Tim Dietrich ◽  
Maximiliano Ujevic

The gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures connected to the merger of two neutron stars allow us to test the nature of matter at supranuclear densities. Since the Equation of State governing the interior of neutron stars is only loosely constrained, there is even the possibility that strange quark matter exists inside the core of neutron stars. We investigate how strange quark matter cores affect the binary neutron star coalescence by performing numerical relativity simulations. Interestingly, the strong phase transition can cause a reduction of the convergence order of the numerical schemes to first order if the numerical resolution is not high enough. Therefore, an additional challenge is added in producing high-quality gravitational wave templates for Equation of States with a strong phase transition. Focusing on one particular configuration of an equal mass configuration consistent with GW170817, we compute and discuss the associated gravitational wave signal and some of the electromagnetic counterparts connected to the merger of the two stars. We find that existing waveform approximants employed for the analysis of GW170817 allow describing this kind of systems within the numerical uncertainties, which, however, are several times larger than for pure hadronic Equation of States, which means that even higher resolutions have been employed for an accurate gravitational wave model comparison. We also show that for the chosen Equation of State, quasi-universal relations describing the gravitational wave emission after the moment of merger seem to hold and that the electromagnetic signatures connected to our chosen setup would not be bright enough to explain the kilonova associated to GW170817.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Gamba ◽  
Matteo Breschi ◽  
Sebastiano Bernuzzi ◽  
Michalis Agathos ◽  
Alessandro Nagar

1960 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Pressman ◽  
Joseph B. Keller

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