Spin-Precession: Breaking the Black Hole--Neutron Star Degeneracy
arXiv:1402.3581 · doi:10.1088/2041-8205/798/1/L17
Abstract
Mergers of compact stellar remnant are prime targets for the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detectors. One hopes that the gravitational wave signals from these merger events can be used to study the mass and spin distribution of stellar remnants, and provide information about black hole horizons and the material properties of neutron stars. However, it has been suggested that degeneracies in the way that the star's mass and spin are imprinted in the waveforms may make it impossible to distinguish between black holes and neutron stars. Here we show that the precession of the orbital plane due to spin-orbit coupling breaks the mass-spin degeneracy, and allows us to distinguish between standard neutron stars and alternative possibilities, such as black holes or exotic neutron stars with large masses and spins.
5 pages, 4 figures, published version, major modifications
References in corpus (12)
- Neutron Star Observations: Prognosis for Equation of State Constraints
- Two timescale analysis of extreme mass ratio inspirals in Kerr. I. Orbital Motion
- BayesLine: Bayesian Inference for Spectral Estimation of Gravitational Wave Detector Noise
- Next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit effects in the near-zone metric and precession equations of compact binaries
- Tests of Bayesian Model Selection Techniques for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
- Effective No-Hair Relations for Neutron Stars and Quark Stars: Relativistic Results
- Quasiuniversal properties of neutron star mergers
- A Precise Proper Motion for the Crab Pulsar, and the Difficulty of Testing Spin-Kick Alignment for Young Neutron Stars
- Bounding the mass of the graviton with gravitational waves: Effect of spin precessions in massive black hole binaries
- A Bayesian Approach to the Detection Problem in Gravitational Wave Astronomy
- Detection and Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Inspirals with Analytical Double-Precessing Templates
- Parameter estimation for coalescing massive binary black holes with LISA using the full 2-post-Newtonian gravitational waveform and spin-orbit precession
Cited by in corpus (55)
- GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
- GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
- Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
- Theoretical Physics Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Mergers GW150914 and GW151226
- Extreme Gravity Tests with Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences: (I) Inspiral-Merger
- Constraining the neutron star equation of state with gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary neutron stars
- Constructing Gravitational Waves from Generic Spin-Precessing Compact Binary Inspirals
- SEOBNRv5PHM: Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes
- Measuring the neutron star tidal deformability with equation-of-state-independent relations and gravitational waves
- The Missing Link in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Discoveries waiting in the decihertz range
- Multi-timescale analysis of phase transitions in precessing black-hole binaries
- Gravitational-wave astrophysics with effective-spin measurements: asymmetries and selection biases
- Distinguishing compact binary population synthesis models using gravitational-wave observations of coalescing binary black holes
- Can we measure individual black-hole spins from gravitational-wave observations?
- The Science of the Einstein Telescope
- PRECESSION: Dynamics of spinning black-hole binaries with python
- Impact of Bayesian prior on the characterization of binary black hole coalescences
- The Fate of the Compact Remnant in Neutron Star Mergers
- Effective-one-body waveforms for binary neutron stars using surrogate models
- Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from neutron-star binaries with spinning components
- Coalescence of black hole--neutron star binaries
- Probing the Internal Composition of Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves
- GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
- Approximate Universal Relations among Tidal Parameters for Neutron Star Binaries
- Can we distinguish low mass black holes in neutron star binaries?
- Neutron stars versus black holes: probing the mass gap with LIGO/Virgo
- Distinguishing types of compact-object binaries using the gravitational-wave signatures of their mergers
- Measuring precession in asymmetric compact binaries
- Low-mass neutron stars: universal relations, the nuclear symmetry energy and gravitational radiation
- Analytic gravitational waveforms for generic precessing compact binaries
- Improved post-Newtonian waveform model for inspiralling precessing-eccentric compact binaries
- New effective precession spin for modeling multimodal gravitational waveforms in the strong-field regime
- Spin-Precessing Black Hole Binaries in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity
- Estimating parameters of binary black holes from gravitational-wave observations of their inspiral, merger and ringdown
- Inferring the maximum and minimum mass of merging neutron stars with gravitational waves
- Interplay of spin-precession and higher harmonics in the parameter estimation of binary black holes
- Systematic challenges for future gravitational wave measurements of precessing binary black holes
- Measuring the properties of nearly extremal black holes with gravitational waves
- Improved analysis of GW190412 with a precessing numerical relativity surrogate waveform model
- Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework for Precessing Binaries
- Wide nutation: binary black-hole spins repeatedly oscillating from full alignment to full anti-alignment
- Rotating Love: The dynamical tides of spinning Newtonian stars
- Rapid gravitational wave parameter estimation with a single spin: Systematic uncertainties in parameter estimation with the SpinTaylorF2 approximation
- Parameter estimation using a complete signal and inspiral templates for low mass binary black holes with Advanced LIGO sensitivity
- Scalar Tops and Perturbed Quadrupoles: Probing Fundamental Physics with Spin-Precessing Binaries
- Phenomenological model of gravitational self-force enhanced tides in inspiralling binary neutron stars
- Prospects for measuring off-axis spins of binary black holes with Plus-era gravitational-wave detectors
- Relevance of Precession for Tests of the Black Hole No Hair Theorems
- Accuracy in Measuring the Neutron Star Mass in Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation for Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries
- Secular Spin-orbit Resonances of Black Hole Binaries in AGN Disks
- Challenging a binary neutron star merger interpretation of GW230529
- Characterizing Compact-object Binaries in the Lower Mass Gap with Gravitational Waves
- Parity Violation in Spin-Precessing Binaries: Gravitational Waves from the Inspiral of Black Holes in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity
- Prospects for distinguishing dynamical tides in inspiralling binary neutron stars with third generation gravitational-wave detectors
- Reconsidering the consistent use of precessing, higher order multipole models for gravitational wave analyses