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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
卷 37, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab5ba4
关键词
neutron stars; gravitational waves; equation of state; compact objects
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资金
- INFN
- DFG
- NSF through the INFN-NSF/LIGO summer student exchange program
- NSF through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [406116891, RTG 2522/1]
- NSF [PHY-1806962, PHY-1607178]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-0757058, PHY-0823459]
The detection of GW170817, the first neutron star-neutron star merger observed by Advanced LIGO and Virgo, and its following analyses represent the first contributions of gravitational wave data to understanding dense matter. Parameterizing the high density section of the equation of state of both neutron stars through spectral decomposition, and imposing a lower limit on the maximum mass value, led to an estimate of the stars' radii of R-1 = 11.9(-1.4)(+1.4) km and R-2 = 11.9(-1.4)(+1.4) km (Abbott et al 2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 161101). These values do not, however, take into account any uncertainty owed to the choice of the crust low-density equation of state, which was fixed to reproduce the SLy equation of state model (Douchin and Haensel 2001 Astron. Astrophys. 380 151). We here re-analyze GW170817 data and establish that different crust models do not strongly impact the mass or tidal deformability of a neutron star-it is impossible to distinguish between low-density models with gravitational wave analysis. However, the crust does have an effect on inferred radius. We predict the systematic error due to this effect using neutron star structure equations, and compare the prediction to results from full parameter estimation runs. For GW170817, this systematic error affects the radius estimate by 0.3 km, approximately 3% of the neutron stars' radii.
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