In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity (GR) has made remarkable
predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests …

Microscopic calculations of neutron matter based on nuclear interactions derived from chiral
effective field theory, combined with the recent observation of a 1.97±0.04 M☉ neutron star …

Perturbations of black holes, initially considered in the context of possible observations of
astrophysical effects, have been studied for the past 10 years in string theory, brane-world …

The nuclear symmetry energy characterizes the variation of the binding energy as the
neutron to proton ratio of a nuclear system is varied. This is one of the most important …

The advanced interferometer network will herald a new era in observational astronomy.
There is a very strong science case to go beyond the advanced detector network and build …

The LIGO observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger has begun a
new era in fundamental physics. If new dark sector particles, be they bosons or fermions …

We review the impact of nuclear forces on matter at neutron-rich extremes. Recent results
have shown that neutron-rich nuclei become increasingly sensitive to three-nucleon forces …

We present an effective, low-dimensionality frequency-domain template for the gravitational
wave (GW) signal from the stellar remnants from binary neutron star (BNS) coalescence. A …

We introduce a classification scheme of the postmerger dynamics and gravitational wave
emission in binary neutron star mergers, after identifying a new mechanism by which a …