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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2022

Mega-Hertz Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Mergers

Résumé

Neutron star mergers provide a unique laboratory for the study of strong-field gravity coupled to Quantum Chromodynamics in extreme conditions. The frequencies and amplitudes of the resulting gravitational waves encode invaluable information about the merger. Simulations to date have shown that these frequencies lie in the kilo-Hertz range. They have also shown that, if Quantum Chromodynamics possesses a first-order phase transition at high baryon density, then this is likely to be accessed during the merger dynamics. Here we show that this would result in the nucleation of superheated and/or supercompressed bubbles whose subsequent dynamics would produce gravitational waves in the Mega-Hertz range. We estimate the amplitude of this signal and show that it may fall within the expected sensitivity of future superconducting radio-frequency cavity detectors for mergers at distances up to tens of Mega-parsecs.

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hal-03826325 , version 1 (24-10-2022)

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Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia. Mega-Hertz Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Mergers. 2022. ⟨hal-03826325⟩

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