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Title: Hidden-sector Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars

Abstract

Neutron star (NS) binaries can be ideal laboratories to probe hidden sectors with a long-range force. Specifically, it is possible for gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as LIGO and Virgo to resolve the correction of waveforms from ultralight dark gauge bosons coupled to NSs. Our work demonstrates that the interaction of the hidden sector affects both the GW frequency and amplitude in a way that cannot be fitted by pure gravity.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4]
  1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States)
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  3. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  4. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1547361
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011637
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online); Journal Volume: 858; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; binaries: close; dark matter; gravitational waves

Citation Formats

Croon, Djuna, Nelson, Ann E., Sun, Chen, Walker, Devin G. E., and Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi. Hidden-sector Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aabe76.
Croon, Djuna, Nelson, Ann E., Sun, Chen, Walker, Devin G. E., & Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi. Hidden-sector Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aabe76
Croon, Djuna, Nelson, Ann E., Sun, Chen, Walker, Devin G. E., and Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi. Thu . "Hidden-sector Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aabe76. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1547361.
@article{osti_1547361,
title = {Hidden-sector Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars},
author = {Croon, Djuna and Nelson, Ann E. and Sun, Chen and Walker, Devin G. E. and Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi},
abstractNote = {Neutron star (NS) binaries can be ideal laboratories to probe hidden sectors with a long-range force. Specifically, it is possible for gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as LIGO and Virgo to resolve the correction of waveforms from ultralight dark gauge bosons coupled to NSs. Our work demonstrates that the interaction of the hidden sector affects both the GW frequency and amplitude in a way that cannot be fitted by pure gravity.},
doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/aabe76},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 858,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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