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gr-qc2026

Search for Compact Binary Coalescences with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the Second Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816

We report on a gravitational wave search for compact binary coalescences with secondary mass between 0.2 M and 1 M and primary mass between 0.2 M and 10 M, restricting the componen…

astro-ph.HE2026

Magnetized neutron stars: perturbative versus fully-numerical approaches

Debarati Chatterjee, Daw Guttmann, Jérôme Novak +2

(1) Background: for the study of highly magnetized neutron stars observed as magnetars, and to quantify the effect of this intense magnetic field onto the star's structure and shap…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 34 cited

GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1783

We report the observation of gravitational waves from two binary black hole coalescences during the fourth observing run of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA detector network, GW241011 and GW…

astro-ph.HE2025

-mode Oscillations for Hyperons and H-dibaryons in Neutron Stars

Rajesh Maiti, Jesper Leong, Debarati Chatterjee +1

The fundamental (-mode) oscillations of neutron stars are studied within the quark meson coupling model, a relativistic Hartree-Fock theory of dense nuclear matter, which takes…

astro-ph.HE2025

PSR J0614-3329: A NICER case for Strange Quark Stars

Swarnim Shirke, Rajesh Maiti, Debarati Chatterjee

Precise measurements of neutron star masses and radii by the NICER mission impose important constraints on the nuclear equation of state. The most recent NICER measurement of PSR J…

gr-qc2025★ 4 cited

-mode oscillations of dark matter admixed neutron stars

Swarnim Shirke, Debarati Chatterjee, Prashanth Jaikumar

We investigate -mode oscillations in dark matter admixed neutron stars employing a relativistic mean field model to describe hadronic matter and a model for self-interacting fer…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

-mode oscillations in hot Neutron Stars: Effect of hyperons and neutrino trapping

Nilaksha Barman, Debarati Chatterjee

In this work, we present an equation of state formalism for hot Neutron Stars (NSs) which consistently includes the effects of finite temperature, hyperons as well as neutrino trap…

gr-qc2025★ 8 cited

Tidal heating in binary inspiral of strange quark stars

Suprovo Ghosh, José Luis Hernández, Bikram Keshari Pradhan +3

We investigate tidal heating associated with the binary inspiral of strange quark stars and its impact on the resulting gravitational wave signal. Tidal heating during the merger o…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Detectability of Massive Boson Stars using Gravitational Waves from Fundamental Oscillations

Swarnim Shirke, Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Debarati Chatterjee +2

Boson Stars are macroscopic self-gravitating configurations made of complex scalar fields. These exotic compact objects would manifest as dark Boson stars and, in the absence of el…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Fundamental oscillations as a tool to distinguish boson stars from neutron stars and black holes

Swarnim Shirke, Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Debarati Chatterjee +2

Massive boson stars are self-gravitating configurations of self-interacting scalar fields and can be modeled by a massive scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential. It…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Investigating the role of nuclear parameters in Neutron Star oscillations: a model comparison

Rajesh Maiti, Debarati Chatterjee

Recent studies based on the relativistic mean field (RMF) model found certain nuclear empirical parameters, in particular the nucleon effective mass, to be strongly correlated with…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Investigating the role of nuclear parameters on oscillation modes in hot Neutron Stars

Nilaksha Barman, Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Debarati Chatterjee

Recent studies have revealed that certain nuclear parameters are more dominant than others in governing global neutron star properties, such as its structure or oscillation mode ch…

gr-qc2024

Can the second time-derivative of the orbital frequency of binary pulsars be used for testing general relativity?

Dhruv Pathak, Debarati Chatterjee

With precision pulsar timing, measured values of a large set of pulsar parameters are obtainable. For some of those parameters, such as the time-derivatives of spin or orbital peri…

gr-qc2024★ 32 cited

Effects of Dark Matter on -mode oscillations of Neutron Stars

Swarnim Shirke, Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Debarati Chatterjee +2

The effect of dark matter (DM) on -mode oscillations in DM admixed neutron stars (NSs) is investigated in a comprehensive analysis with particular attention to the role of the n…

gr-qc2023

Prospects of identifying the presence of Strange Stars using Gravitational Waves from binary systems

Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Swarnim Shirke, Debarati Chatterjee

The existence of self-bound strange stars is a long-standing mystery in astrophysics. Future astrophysical data, even with improved precision, may not allow us to discriminate them…

gr-qc2023★ 10 cited

Cost of inferred nuclear parameters towards the f-mode dynamical tide in binary neutron stars

Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Tathagata Ghosh, Dhruv Pathak +1

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations from Neutron Stars (NS) in a binary system provide an excellent scenario to constrain the nuclear parameters. The investigation of Pratten et a…

nucl-th2023★ 17 cited

Probing hadron-quark phase transition in twin stars using -modes

Bikram Keshari Pradhan, Debarati Chatterjee, David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo

Although it is conjectured that a phase transition from hadronic to deconfined quark matter in the ultrahigh-density environment of Neutron Stars (NS), the nature of phase transiti…

astro-ph.HE2022

Improving the spin-down limits of the continuous gravitational waves emitted from rotating triaxial pulsars

Dhruv Pathak, Debarati Chatterjee

The spin-down limit of the continuous gravitational wave strain from pulsars assumed to be triaxial stars rotating about a principal moment of inertia axis depends upon the value o…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 28 cited

Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1692

We present the results of a model-based search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 using LIGO detector data from the third observing run…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 70 cited

Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO--Virgo data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

We present a directed search for continuous gravitational wave (CW) signals emitted by spinning neutron stars located in the inner parsecs of the Galactic Center (GC). Compelling e…

gr-qc2022★ 37 cited

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

Results are presented for a semi-coherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to allow for spin…

gr-qc2021★ 74 cited

Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1658

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully-coherent s…

gr-qc2021★ 133 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1682

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensiti…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 247 cited

Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1676

We use 47 gravitational-wave sources from the Third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) to estimate the Hubble parameter , including its current va…