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Updated estimates of post-merger gravitational wave energy released in GW170817 and the maximum neutron star mass
Yong Chen, Bo Gao, Yong-Jia Huang +2
In this work, benefiting from the increased sample of neutron stars with measured masses and radii as well as the incorporation of the chiral effective field theory and perturbativ…
Bekenstein--Hod Bound: A Confirmation from GW250114
Hai-Tian Wang, Shao-Peng Tang, Yi-Zhong Fan
Black holes link gravity, thermodynamics and information via limits on the relaxation rate of a perturbed system. The Bekenstein-Hod bound imposes a minimum relaxation time at fixe…
Neutron Star Observations Challenge a Large Colour-Superconducting Gap in Dense Quark Matter
Shao-Peng Tang, Yong-Jia Huang, Yi-Zhong Fan
At asymptotically high density, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that quark matter becomes a colour superconductor in the colour-flavour-locked (CFL) phase, yet, away from the…
Verification of the Black Hole Area Law with GW230814
Shao-Peng Tang, Hai-Tian Wang, Yin-Jie Li +1
We present an observational confirmation of Hawking's black-hole area theorem using the newly released gravitational-wave data from the GWTC-4.0. We analyze the high signal-to-nois…
Detection of a Higher Harmonic Quasi-normal Mode in the Ringdown Signal of GW231123
Hai-Tian Wang, Shao-Peng Tang, Peng-Cheng Li +1
The ringdown phase of a gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger offers a unique laboratory for testing general relativity in the strong-field regime and probing t…
Phase transition and nuclear symmetry energy from neutron star observations: Constraints in light of PSR J0614--3329
Shao-Peng Tang, Yong-Jia Huang, Yi-Zhong Fan
The possible occurrence of a first-order hadron-quark phase transition (FOPT) in neutron-star interiors remains an open question. Whether such a transition can be directly tested w…
The maximum mass and rotational kinetic energy of rapidly rotating neutron stars
Shao-Peng Tang, Yong-Jia Huang, Yi-Zhong Fan
Rapid uniformly-rotating neutron stars are expected to be formed for instance in the collapse of some massive stars, the accretion of compact object binaries, and double neutron st…
Constraints on Einstein-dilation-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and electric charge of compact binary systems from GW230529
Bo Gao, Shao-Peng Tang, Hai-Tian Wang +2
In this work, we study the implications of GW230529 on gravity theories and the charge of black holes. The GW230529, which was initially released in O4a, is most likely neutron sta…
Digging into the ultraviolet luminosity functions of galaxies at high redshifts: galaxies evolution, reionization, and cosmological parameters
Yi-Ying Wang, Lei Lei, Shao-Peng Tang +2
Thanks to the successful performance of the James Webb Space Telescope, our understanding of the epoch of reionization of the Universe has been advanced. The ultraviolet luminosity…
Upper Limit of Sound Speed in Nuclear Matter: A Harmonious Interplay of Transport Calculation and Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamic Constraint
Shao-Peng Tang, Yong-Jia Huang, Ming-Zhe Han +1
Very recently, it has been shown that there is an upper bound on the squared sound speed of nuclear matter from the transport, which reads . In this work, w…
Prospects of Identifying Hierarchical Triple Mergers for the Third-generation Ground-based Detectors
Bo Gao, Shao-Peng Tang, Jingzhi Yan +1
A hierarchical triple merger (HTM) constitutes a type of event in which two successive black hole (BH) mergers occur sequentially within the observational window of gravitational w…
Mass and radius of the most massive neutron star: The probe of the equation of state and perturbative QCD
Shao-Peng Tang, Ming-Zhe Han, Yong-Jia Huang +2
Recently, an association of GW190425 and FRB 20190425A had been claimed and a highly magnetized neutron star (NS) remnant was speculated. Given the -h delay of the occurr…
Measuring Mass and Radius of the Maximum-mass Nonrotating Neutron Star
Shao-Peng Tang, Bo Gao, Yin-Jie Li +2
The mass () and radius () of the maximum-mass nonrotating neutron star (NS) play a crucial role in constraining the elusive equation of state of cold dens…
Maximum gravitational mass inferred at about precision with multimessenger data of neutron stars
Yi-Zhong Fan, Ming-Zhe Han, Jin-Liang Jiang +2
The maximal gravitational mass of nonrotating neutron stars () is one of the key parameters of compact objects and only loose bounds can be set based on the first prin…
Modeling the JWST high-redshift galaxies with a general formation scenario and the consistency with the CDM model
Yi-Ying Wang, Lei Lei, Guan-Wen Yuan +1
Early results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have hinted at two traces beyond the standard cosmological framework. One is the extraordinarily high stellar…
Rapidly growing primordial black holes as seeds of the massive high-redshift JWST Galaxies
Guan-Wen Yuan, Lei Lei, Yuan-Zhu Wang +6
A group of massive galaxies at redshifts of have been recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which were unexpected to form so early within the fra…
Resolving the Stellar-Collapse and Hierarchical-Merger origins of the Coalescing Black Holes
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +1
Spin and mass properties provide essential clues in distinguishing the origins of coalescing black holes (BHs). With a dedicated semiparametric population model for the coalescing…
Potential Subpopulations and Assembling Tendency of the Merging Black Holes
Yuan-Zhu Wang, Yin-Jie Li, Jorick S. Vink +4
The origins of coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the advanced LIGO/Virgo are still under debate, and clues may be present in the joint mass-spin distribution of thes…
The late afterglow of GW170817/GRB170817A: a large viewing angle and the shift of the Hubble constant to a value more consistent with the local measurements
Yi-Ying Wang, Shao-Peng Tang, Zhi-Ping Jin +1
The multi-messenger data of neutron star merger events are promising for constraining the Hubble constant. So far, GW170817 is still the unique gravitational wave event with multi-…
Plausible presence of new state in neutron stars with masses above
Ming-Zhe Han, Yong-Jia Huang, Shao-Peng Tang +1
We investigate the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) by incorporating multi-messenger data of GW170817, PSR J0030+0451, PSR J0740+6620, and state-of-the-art theoretical pro…
Nonparametric Representation of Neutron Star Equation of State Using Variational Autoencoder
Ming-Zhe Han, Shao-Peng Tang, Yi-Zhong Fan
We introduce a new nonparametric representation of the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) by using the variational autoencoder (VAE). As a deep neural network, the VAE is fr…
GB6 J2113+1121: A multi-wavelength flaring gamma-ray blazar temporally and spatially coincident with the neutrino event IceCube-191001A
Neng-Hui Liao, Zhen-Feng Sheng, Ning Jiang +6
A radio-emitting tidal disruption event (AT2019dsg) is proposed as a likely counterpart of the IceCube neutrino event IC-191001A. In this work we have revisited the {\it Fermi}-LAT…
Divergence in mass ratio distributions between low-mass and high-mass coalescing binary black holes
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +3
Coalescing binary black hole (BBH) systems are likely formed via several channels, and it is challenging to understand their formation / evolutionary processes. Some features in th…
Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron star merger
E. Pian, P. D'Avanzo, S. Benetti +81
The merger of two neutron stars is predicted to give rise to three major detectable phenomena: a short burst of gamma-rays, a gravitational wave signal, and a transient optical/nea…