Challenges and opportunities of gravitational-wave searches at MHz to GHz frequencies

N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, A Bauswein, G Cella… - Living reviews in …, 2021 - Springer
The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations
has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the …

Neutron-star tidal deformability and equation-of-state constraints

K Chatziioannou - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2020 - Springer
Despite their long history and astrophysical importance, some of the key properties of
neutron stars are still uncertain. The extreme conditions encountered in their interiors …

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

M Branchesi, M Maggiore, D Alonso… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation
gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape …

A horizon study for cosmic explorer: science, observatories, and community

M Evans, RX Adhikari, C Afle, SW Ballmer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave
observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic …

Strongly interacting matter exhibits deconfined behavior in massive neutron stars

E Annala, T Gorda, J Hirvonen, O Komoltsev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities in our Universe. This highly
compressed matter may undergo a phase transition where nuclear matter melts into …

Identifying a first-order phase transition in neutron-star mergers through gravitational waves

A Bauswein, NUF Bastian, DB Blaschke… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We identify an observable imprint of a first-order hadron-quark phase transition at
supranuclear densities on the gravitational-wave (GW) emission of neutron-star mergers …

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

The dynamics of binary neutron star mergers and GW170817

D Radice, S Bernuzzi, A Perego - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
With the first observation of a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves and
light, GW170817, compact binary mergers have now taken the center stage in nuclear …

Merger and postmerger of binary neutron stars with a quark-hadron crossover equation of state

YJ Huang, L Baiotti, T Kojo, K Takami, H Sotani… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Fully general-relativistic binary-neutron-star (BNS) merger simulations with quark-hadron
crossover (QHC) equations of state (EOS) are studied for the first time. In contrast to EOS …

GW190814 as a massive rapidly rotating neutron star with exotic degrees of freedom

V Dexheimer, RO Gomes, T Klähn, S Han, M Salinas - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
In the context of the massive secondary object recently observed in the compact-star merger
GW190814, we investigate the possibility of producing massive neutron stars from a few …