Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-12-18
Phys.Rev.D81:064026,2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
11 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables; references added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.064026
We study the tidal disruption of neutron stars in black hole-neutron star coalescing binaries. We calculate the critical orbital separation at which the star is disrupted by the black hole tidal field for several equations of state describing the matter inside the neutron star, and for a large set of the binary parameters. When the disruption occurs before the star reaches the innermost stable circular orbit, the gravitational wave (GW) signal emitted by the system is expected to exhibit a cutoff frequency nu_GWtide, which is a distinctive feature of the waveform. We evaluate nu_GWtide and show that, if this frequency will be found in a detected gravitational wave, it will allow to determine the neutron star radius with an error of a few percent, providing valuable information on the behaviour of matter in the stellar core.
Ferrari Valeria
Gualtieri Leonardo
Pannarale Francesco
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