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Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A to Cosmic Explorer
Ish Gupta, Chaitanya Afle, K. G. Arun +44
Gravitational-wave observations by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo have provided us a new tool to explore the Universe on all scales from n…
An observational upper limit on the rate of gamma-ray bursts with neutron star-black hole merger progenitors
Sylvia Biscoveanu, Eric Burns, Philippe Landry +1
Compact-object binary mergers consisting of one neutron star and one black hole (NSBHs) have long been considered promising progenitors for gamma-ray bursts, whose central engine r…
Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee
Matthew Evans, Alessandra Corsi, Chaitanya Afle +73
Gravitational-wave astronomy has revolutionized humanity's view of the universe, a revolution driven by observations that no other field can make. This white paper describes an obs…
Phase Transition Phenomenology with Nonparametric Representations of the Neutron Star Equation of State
Reed Essick, Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou +2
Astrophysical observations of neutron stars probe the structure of dense nuclear matter and have the potential to reveal phase transitions at high densities. Most recent analyses a…
Theoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter
Rajesh Kumar, Veronica Dexheimer, Johannes Jahan +57
This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results…
Prospects for constraining twin stars with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors
Philippe Landry, Kabir Chakravarti
Neutron star equations of state with strong phase transitions may support twin stars, hybrid and hadronic stars with the same mass but different tidal deformabilities. The presence…
Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars
Alessandro Lovato, Travis Dore, Robert D. Pisarski +61
Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear matter at l…
Snowmass 2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: The Dense Matter Equation of State and QCD Phase Transitions
Slavko Bogdanov, Emmanuel Fonseca, Rahul Kashyap +26
Our limited understanding of the physical properties of matter at ultra-high density, high proton/neutron number asymmetry, and low temperature is presently one of the major outsta…
Population properties and multimessenger prospects of neutron star-black hole mergers following GWTC-3
Sylvia Biscoveanu, Philippe Landry, Salvatore Vitale
Neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers detected in gravitational waves have the potential to shed light on supernova physics, the dense matter equation of state, and the astrophysi…
Science-Driven Tunable Design of Cosmic Explorer Detectors
Varun Srivastava, Derek Davis, Kevin Kuns +6
Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like Cosmic Explorer can be tuned to improve their sensitivity at high or low frequencies by tuning the response of the signal extraction…
Implicit correlations within phenomenological parametric models of the neutron star equation of state
Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou, Reed Essick +1
The rapid increase in the number and precision of astrophysical probes of neutron stars in recent years allows for the inference of their equation of state. Observations target dif…
A Horizon Study for Cosmic Explorer: Science, Observatories, and Community
Matthew Evans, Rana X Adhikari, Chaitanya Afle +29
This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic Explorer will p…
A Detailed Examination of Astrophysical Constraints on the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin of Pb with Minimal Modeling Assumptions
Reed Essick, Philippe Landry, Achim Schwenk +1
The symmetry energy and its density dependence are pivotal for many nuclear physics and astrophysics applications, as they determine properties ranging from the neutron-skin thickn…
The Mass Distribution of Neutron Stars in Gravitational-wave Binaries
Philippe Landry, Jocelyn S. Read
The discovery of two neutron star-black hole coalescences by LIGO and Virgo brings the total number of likely neutron stars observed in gravitational waves to six. We perform the f…
Impact of the PSR J0740+6620 radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter
Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou, Reed Essick +2
X-ray pulse profile modeling of PSR J0740+6620, the most massive known pulsar, with data from the NICER and XMM-Newton observatories recently led to a measurement of its radius. We…
Predicting electromagnetic counterparts using low-latency, gravitational-wave data products
Cosmin Stachie, Michael W. Coughlin, Tim Dietrich +8
Searches for gravitational-wave counterparts have been going in earnest since GW170817 and the discovery of AT2017gfo. Since then, the lack of detection of other optical counterpar…
Astrophysical Constraints on the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin of Pb with Minimal Modeling Assumptions
Reed Essick, Ingo Tews, Philippe Landry +1
The symmetry energy and its density dependence are crucial inputs for many nuclear physics and astrophysics applications, as they determine properties ranging from the neutron-skin…
Discriminating between Neutron Stars and Black Holes with Imperfect Knowledge of the Maximum Neutron Star Mass
Reed Essick, Philippe Landry
Although gravitational-wave signals from exceptional low-mass compact binary coalescences, like GW170817, may carry matter signatures that differentiate the source from a binary bl…
Direct Astrophysical Tests of Chiral Effective Field Theory at Supranuclear Densities
Reed Essick, Ingo Tews, Philippe Landry +2
Recent observations of neutron stars with gravitational waves and X-ray timing provide unprecedented access to the equation of state (EoS) of cold dense matter at densities difficu…
Nonparametric constraints on neutron star matter with existing and upcoming gravitational wave and pulsar observations
Philippe Landry, Reed Essick, Katerina Chatziioannou
Observations of neutron stars, whether in binaries or in isolation, provide information about the internal structure of the most extreme material objects in the Universe. In this w…
Nonparametric Inference of Neutron Star Composition, Equation of State, and Maximum Mass with GW170817
Reed Essick, Philippe Landry, Daniel E. Holz
The detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves provides unprecedented constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of the ultra-dense matter within the cores of neutron stars (NSs)…
Inferring neutron star properties from GW170817 with universal relations
Bharat Kumar, Philippe Landry
Because all neutron stars share a common equation of state, tidal deformability constraints from the compact binary coalescence GW170817 have implications for the properties of neu…
Standard sirens with a running Planck mass
Macarena Lagos, Maya Fishbach, Philippe Landry +1
We consider the effect of a time-varying Planck mass on the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). A running Planck mass arises naturally in several modified gravity theories, a…
Non-parametric inference of the neutron star equation of state from gravitational wave observations
Philippe Landry, Reed Essick
We develop a non-parametric method for inferring the universal neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) from gravitational wave (GW) observations. Many different possible realizat…