The One-Armed Spiral Instability in Neutron Star Mergers and its Detectability in Gravitational Waves

<p>We distribute complete gravitational-wave signals in the Advanced LIGO band (10 Hz - 8192 Hz) of the inspiral and merger of two neutron stars. These waveforms been constructed by hybridizing numerical-relativity data obtained with the WhiskyTHC code [1] with tidal effective-one-body waveforms [2,3]. More details on the procedure used to generate these waveforms are given in [4]. &nbsp;</p> <p>The waveforms are distributed as HDF5 files containing the amplitude and phase of the -2 spin-weighted spherical harmonics multipoles of the strain:</p> <p><span class="math-tex">\(( h_+ - \mathrm{i} h_\times )_{l,m} = \frac{A_{l,m}}{D_{\rm cm}} \exp(-\mathrm{i} \phi_{l,m} )\)</span></p> <p>where <span class="math-tex">\(D_{\rm cm}\)</span>&nbsp;is the distance in cm from the source.</p> <p>The data files include a machine readable &quot;/metadata&quot; group with:</p> <ul> <li>/metadata/EOS: name of the equation of state</li> <li>/metadata/M_{A|B}: mass in isolation of star A (or B) in grams</li> <li>/metadata/R_{A|B}: radius of star A (or B) in cm</li> <li>/metadata/k2T: tidal coupling constant of the binary (see [3])</li> <li>/metadata/kl_{A|B}: l=2,3,4 dimensionless Love numbers of star A (or B)</li> </ul> <p>We store amplitude and phase for multipoles modes up to l=4 as time series sampled at 16384 Hz.</p> <p>We make these waveforms freely available in the hope that they will be useful. &nbsp;We kindly ask you to cite [3] and [4] in any publication resulting from the use of these waveforms.</p> <p>---<br /> [1] http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~david_e/whiskythc.html<br /> [2] https://eob.ihes.fr/<br /> [3] S. Bernuzzi, A. Nagar, T. Dietrich, T. Damour; Modeling the Dynamics of Tidally Interacting Binary Neutron Stars up to the Merger; Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) 16, 161103.<br /> [4] D. Radice, S. Bernuzzi, C. D. Ott; The One-Armed Spiral Instability in Neutron Star Mergers and its Detectability in Gravitational Waves; arXiv:1603.05726.</p>