2017

Dynamical tides in coalescing superfluid neutron star binaries with hyperon cores and their detectability with third generation gravitational-wave detectors

Yu, Hang, Weinberg, Nevin N.

Understand

The dynamical tide in a coalescing neutron star binary induces phase shifts in the gravitational waveform as the orbit sweeps through resonances with individual g-modes.

  • Unlike the phase shift due to the equilibrium tide, the phase shifts due to the dynamical tide are sensitive to the stratification, composition, and superfluid state of the core.
  • We extend our previous study of the dynamical tide in superfluid neutron stars by allowing for hyperons in the core.
  • Hyperon gradients give rise to a new type of composition g-mode.

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