Probing neutron stars with the full premerger and postmerger gravitational wave signal from binary coalescences
Probing neutron stars with the full premerger and postmerger gravitational wave signal from binary coalescences
The gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of two neutron stars carries information about the stars' internal structure. During the long inspiral phase the main matter observable is the tidal interaction between the binary components, an effect that can be parametrically modeled with compact-binary solutions to general relativity. After …