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Irregular Repeating Tidal Disruption Events due to Diffusive Tides
Shu Yan Lau, Ethan McKeever, Hang Yu
A repeating partial tidal disruption event (rpTDE) is typically modeled as a star on a bound orbit that is partially disrupted by a massive black hole (MBH) at each pericenter pass…
Gravitational-Wave Constraints on Neutron-Star Pressure Anisotropy via Universal Relations
Victor Guedes, Siddarth Ajith, Shu Yan Lau +1
Neutron stars may exhibit pressure anisotropy arising from various physical mechanisms, such as elasticity, magnetic fields, viscosity, and superfluidity. We compute the tidal defo…
Universal Relations for Elastic Hybrid Stars and Quark Stars
Chun-Ming Yip, Shu Yan Lau, Kent Yagi
Some compact stars may contain deconfined quark matter, forming hybrid stars or quark stars. If the quark matter forms an inhomogeneous condensate in the crystalline color supercon…
Gravitational Radiation-Driven Chaotic Tide in a White Dwarf-Massive Black Hole Binary as a Source of Repeating X-ray Transients
Shu Yan Lau, Hang Yu
Eccentric white dwarf-massive black hole binaries can potentially source some extreme X-ray transients, including the recently observed quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions and tidal dis…
The broadening of universal relations at the birth and death of a neutron star
Victor Guedes, Shu Yan Lau, Cecilia Chirenti +1
Certain relations among neutron-star observables that are insensitive to the equation of state are known to exist. Such universal relations have been shown to be valid for cold and…
Astrophysical Parameter Inference on Accreting White Dwarf Binaries using Gravitational Waves
Sophia Yi, Shu Yan Lau, Kent Yagi +1
Accreting binary white dwarf systems are among the sources expected to emanate gravitational waves that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect. We investigate ho…
Probing hybrid stars with gravitational waves via interfacial modes
Shu Yan Lau, Kent Yagi
One of the uncertainties in nuclear physics is whether a phase transition between hadronic nuclear matter to quark matter exists in supranuclear matter equations of state. Such a f…
Two-layer compact stars with crystalline quark matter: Screening effect on the tidal deformability
S. Y. Lau, P. T. Leung, L. -M. Lin
(Abridged) It is well known that the tidal deformability of a compact star carries important information about the interior equation-of-state (EOS) of the star. The first gravitati…
Tidal deformations of compact stars with crystalline quark matter
S. Y. Lau, P. T. Leung, L. -M. Lin
We study the tidal deformability of bare quark stars and hybrid compact stars composed of a quark matter core in general relativity, assuming that the deconfined quark matter exist…