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Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars Disrupted by Black Holes

  • Authors: Teagan A. Clarke, Lani Chastain, Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane

Teagan A. Clarke et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 949 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Posterior distribution for the neutron star radius recovered using the tidal disruption and the tidal deformability for a system with a mass ratio of 0.2. The different shades show the 1σ, 2σ, and 3σ intervals, while the 90% confidence intervals are shown in the 1D histograms. Like the q = 1/3 system, the radius is better constrained using the tidal deformability compared with using the tidal disruption. The radius inferred from the tidal disruption is accurate to ≈9%, while the radius inferred through the tidal deformability is accurate to ≈5% at 90% credibility.

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