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Inferring the maximum and minimum mass of merging neutron stars with gravitational waves
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Chatziioannou, Katerina
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Farr, Will M.
Chicago
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Abstract
We show that the maximum and the minimum mass of merging neutron stars can be estimated with upcoming gravitational wave observations. We simulate populations of binary neutron star signals and model their mass distribution including upper and lower cutoffs. The lower (upper) limit can be measured to ∼0.2 (0.1) M⊙ with 50 detections if the mass distribution supports neutron stars with masses close to the cutoffs. The upper mass limit informs about the high-density properties of the neutron star equation of state, while the lower limit signals the divide between neutron stars and white dwarfs.
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© 2020 American Physical Society. Received 1 May 2020; accepted 20 August 2020; published 25 September 2020. We thank Hsin-Yu Chen, Paul Lasky, Cole Miller, and Eric Thrane for useful discussions. We thank Phil Landry and Bernard Whiting for carefully reading the manuscript. The Flatiron Institute is supported by the Simons Foundation. Software: matplotlib [71], stan [72], numpy [73], scipy [74], and astropy [75,76].Attached Files
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