{"id":144556,"date":"2022-08-21T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/looking-inside-a-neutron-star-new-model-will-improve-insights-gleaned-from-gravitational-waves-2"},"modified":"2022-08-21T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T22:24:36","slug":"looking-inside-a-neutron-star-new-model-will-improve-insights-gleaned-from-gravitational-waves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/looking-inside-a-neutron-star-new-model-will-improve-insights-gleaned-from-gravitational-waves-2","title":{"rendered":"Looking inside a neutron star \u2014 new model will improve insights gleaned from gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/looking-inside-a-neutron-star-new-model-will-improve-insights-gleaned-from-gravitational-waves3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We might start to see atoms interacting with each other in ways \u201cwe have not yet seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Birmingham researchers have demonstrated how unique vibrations, which are caused by interactions between the two stars\u2019 tidal fields as they approach each other, affect gravitational-wave observations.<\/p>\n<p>Taking these movements into account could significantly improve our understanding of the data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo instruments, according to a press release published on the institute\u2019s official website on Thursday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might start to see atoms interacting with each other in ways \u201cwe have not yet seen.\u201d University of Birmingham researchers have demonstrated how unique vibrations, which are caused by interactions between the two stars\u2019 tidal fields as they approach each other, affect gravitational-wave observations. Taking these movements into account could significantly improve our understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}