{"id":144567,"date":"2022-08-22T01:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T06:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/inside-a-neutron-star-new-insights-from-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2022-08-22T01:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T06:22:43","slug":"inside-a-neutron-star-new-insights-from-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/inside-a-neutron-star-new-insights-from-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"Inside a neutron star \u2014 new insights from gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-a-neutron-star-new-insights-from-gravitational-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/looking-inside-a-neutron-star-new-model-will-improve-insights-gleaned-from-gravitational-waves\" title=\"according to a press release\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to a press release<\/a> published on the institute\u2019s official website on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists are now able to get lots of crucial information about <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/neutron-star-devouring-matter-star\" title=\"neutron stars\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">neutron stars<\/a> from the latest gravitational wave detections,\u201d said Dr. Geraint Pratten of the University of Birmingham\u2019s Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy. \u201cDetails such as the relationship between the star\u2019s mass and its radius, for example, provide crucial insight into fundamental physics behind neutron stars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144567","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}