2012年2月
Extracting equation of state parameters from black hole-neutron star mergers: Nonspinning black holes
Physical Review D
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- 巻
- 85
- 号
- 4
- 開始ページ
- 044061
- 終了ページ
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.044061
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
The late inspiral, merger, and ringdown of a black hole-neutron star (BHNS) system can provide information about the neutron-star equation of state (EOS). Candidate EOSs can be approximated by a parametrized piecewise-polytropic EOS above nuclear density, matched to a fixed low-density EOS; and we report results from a large set of BHNS inspiral simulations that systematically vary two parameters. To within the accuracy of the simulations, we find that, apart from the neutron-star mass, a single physical parameter Lambda, describing its deformability, can be extracted from the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown waveform. This parameter is related to the radius, mass, and l = 2 Love number, k(2), of the neutron star by Lambda = 2k(2)R(5)/3M(NS)(5), and it is the same parameter that determines the departure from point-particle dynamics during the early inspiral. Observations of gravitational waves from BHNS inspiral thus restrict the EOS to a surface of constant Lambda in the parameter space, thickened by the measurement error. Using various configurations of a single Advanced LIGO detector, we find that Lambda(1/5) or equivalently R can be extracted to 10-50% accuracy from single events for mass ratios of Q = 2 and 3 at a distance of 100 Mpc, while with the proposed Einstein Telescope, EOS parameters can be extracted to accuracy an order of magnitude better.
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- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.044061
- ISSN : 1550-7998
- ORCIDのPut Code : 51254187
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000300836100002