{"id":3747,"date":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2020\/02\/18\/learning-about-neutron-rich-matter-with-gravitational-waves\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"learning-about-neutron-rich-matter-with-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/learning-about-neutron-rich-matter-with-gravitational-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning about Neutron-rich Matter with Gravitational Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-642.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-642.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-642.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Jocelyn Read<\/p>\n<p>Astronomical observations of neutron stars inform our understanding of matter at the highest densities. Already, we have used gravitational-wave data from GW170817&mdash;the first signal from a neutron-star system&mdash;to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars. More recently, the new heavy neutron-star merger GW190425 has indicated that the gravitational-wave population may include systems not previously observed as galactic binaries. As the mass of the components increases, higher densities of neutron-star matter play a role in the orbital dynamics. I will discuss current methods being used to explore the effect of tidal interactions on the neutron-star coalescence and then translating tidal information from the signal into matter properties in the component stars. I will discuss how these results fit with other neutron-star observations, outline prospects of learning about matter in the current Advanced-detector era, and extrapolate the potential next-generation gravitational-wave observatories have to map the phase diagram of dense neutron-rich matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3747","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}