Dynamical Determination of the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Binary Neutron Stars

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2003-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0312036v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 92 (2004) 141101

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, 4 figures. Minor comments and discussions added. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.141101

We determine the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of binary neutron stars (BNSs) by performing dynamical simulations in full general relativity. Evolving quasiequilibrium (QE) binaries that begin at different separations, we bracket the location of the ISCO by distinguishing stable circular orbits from unstable plunges. We study Gamma=2 polytropes of varying compactions in both corotational and irrotational equal-mass binaries. For corotatonal binaries we find an ISCO orbital angular frequency somewhat smaller than that determined by applying turning-point methods to QE initial data. For the irrotational binaries the initial data sequences terminate before reaching a turning point, but we find that the ISCO frequency is reached prior to the termination point. Our findings suggest that the ISCO frequency varies with compaction but does not depend strongly on the stellar spin. Since the observed gravitational wave signal undergoes a transition from a nearly periodic ``chirp'' to a burst at roughly twice the ISCO frequency, the measurement of its value by laser interferometers (e.g LIGO) will be important for determining some of the physical properites of the underlying stars

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