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Antonios Tsokaros1,2,3, Jamie Bamber1, Milton Ruiz4
1University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Abstract:
Recent nonmagnetized studies of binary neutron star mergers have indicated the possibility of identifying equation-of-state features, such as a phase transition or a quark-hadron crossover, based on the frequency shift of the main peak in the postmerger gravitational wave spectrum. By performing a series of general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations we show that similar frequency shifts can be obtained due to the effect of the magnetic field. The existing degeneracy can either mask or nullify a shift due to a specific equation-of-state feature, and therefore the interpretation of observational data is more complicated than previously thought, requiring a more complete treatment that would necessarily include the neutron star's magnetic field.
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