Pre/Post-Merger Consistency Test for Gravitational Signals from Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can constrain nuclear models, predicting their equation of state (EOS).Matter effects on the inspiral-merger signal are encoded in the multipolar tidal polarizability parameters, whose leading order combination is sufficient to capture, DUCT with high accuracy, the key features of the merge