4 papers
Relativistic tidal effects in non standard Kerr space-time
Andrea Maselli, Kostas Kokkotas, Pablo Laguna
Astrophysical phenomena involving massive black holes (BHs) in close binaries are expected to leave detectable signatures in the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectrum. Su…
Neutron stars in Horndeski gravity
Andrea Maselli, Hector O. Silva, Masato Minamitsuji +1
Horndeski's theory of gravity is the most general scalar-tensor theory with a single scalar whose equations of motion contain at most second-order derivatives. A subsector of Hornd…
Tidal deformations of a spinning compact object
Paolo Pani, Leonardo Gualtieri, Andrea Maselli +1
The deformability of a compact object induced by a perturbing tidal field is encoded in the tidal Love numbers, which depend sensibly on the object's internal structure. These numb…
MG13 proceedings: On the validity of the adiabatic approximation in compact binary inspirals
Andrea Maselli, Leonardo Gualtieri, Francesco Pannarale +1
We use the post-Newtonian-Affine model to assess the validity of the adiabatic approximation in modeling tidal effects in the phase evolution of compact binary systems. We compute…