Authors
Benjamin P Abbott, Richard Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, P Addesso, Rana X Adhikari, Vaishali B Adya, C Affeldt, B Agarwal, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, Bruce Allen, G Allen, A Allocca, MA Aloy, PA Altin, A Amato, A Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, SV Angelova, S Antier, S Appert, K Arai, MC Araya, JS Areeda, M Arène, N Arnaud, KG Arun, S Ascenzi, G Ashton, M Ast, SM Aston, P Astone, DV Atallah, Francois Aubin, P Aufmuth, C Aulbert, K AultONeal, C Austin, A Avila-Alvarez, S Babak, P Bacon, F Badaracco, MKM Bader, S Bae, PT Baker, F Baldaccini, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, S Banagiri, JC Barayoga, SE Barclay, BC Barish, D Barker, K Barkett, S Barnum, F Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, I Bartos, R Bassiri, A Basti, JC Batch, M Bawaj, JC Bayley, M Bazzan, B Bécsy, C Beer, M Bejger, I Belahcene, AS Bell, D Beniwal, M Bensch, BK Berger, G Bergmann, S Bernuzzi, JJ Bero, Christopher Philip Luke Berry, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, R Bhandare, IA Bilenko, SA Bilgili, G Billingsley, CR Billman, J Birch, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, S Biscoveanu, A Bisht, M Bitossi, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, J Blackman, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, S Bloemen, O Bock, N Bode, M Boer, Y Boetzel, G Bogaert, A Bohe, F Bondu, E Bonilla, R Bonnand, P Booker, BA Boom, CD Booth, R Bork, V Boschi, S Bose, K Bossie, V Bossilkov, J Bosveld, Y Bouffanais, A Bozzi, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, A Bramley, M Branchesi, JE Brau, T Briant, F Brighenti, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, P Brockill, AF Brooks, DD Brown, S Brunett, CC Buchanan, A Buikema, T Bulik, HJ Bulten
Publication date
2018/10/19
Journal
Physical review letters
Volume
121
Issue
16
Pages
161101
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
On 17 August 2017, the LIGO and Virgo observatories made the first direct detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a neutron star binary system. The detection of this gravitational-wave signal, GW170817, offers a novel opportunity to directly probe the properties of matter at the extreme conditions found in the interior of these stars. The initial, minimal-assumption analysis of the LIGO and Virgo data placed constraints on the tidal effects of the coalescing bodies, which were then translated to constraints on neutron star radii. Here, we expand upon previous analyses by working under the hypothesis that both bodies were neutron stars that are described by the same equation of state and have spins within the range observed in Galactic binary neutron stars. Our analysis employs two methods: the use of equation-of-state-insensitive relations between various macroscopic properties of the neutron stars and the use of an efficient …
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