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Simulating Binary Neutron Stars with Hybrid Equation of States: Gravitational Waves, Electromagnetic Signatures, and Challenges for Numerical Relativity

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Pith's one-line read This paper reports the first full numerical-relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers whose stars contain strange quark matter cores, and argues that a strong phase transition degrades the simulations' convergence to first…

desk verdict First NR look at hybrid stars with strange quark matter cores; the convergence-order finding is real, but the headline waveform validation leans on an unverified Richardson extrapolation and should be treated as provisional. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.03135 v1 pith:YMO2AYDE submitted 2019-08-08 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-ph

Henrique Gieg , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

This paper asks whether the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signals of two merging neutron stars still look standard when each star hides a core of strange quark matter, separated from ordinary hadronic matter by a sharp phase transition. To find out, the authors build a hybrid equation of state that joins the SLy hadronic model to a bag-model description of strange quark matter, and evolve an equal-mass configuration close to GW170817 with full numerical relativity. They report two main results: a strong phase transition can drop the convergence order of the simulation from second to first order unless the resolution is high enough, and the best-resolved hybrid-star waveform agrees with the hadronic-only approximant IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal within numerical uncertainties that are several times larger than for pure hadronic equations of state. They also find that the postmerger oscillation frequency still follows hadronic quasi-universal relations, while the predicted kilonova is too dim to explain the one observed with GW170817. This is the first test of standard waveform modeling against inspiral simulations of stars containing strange quark matter, and it warns that template accuracy for such stars comes at much higher computational cost.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing construction is a hybrid equation of state built by the Gibbs condition: the SLy hadronic equation of state is joined at a fixed transition pressure to the tdBag strange quark matter model, with the quark matter parameterized by $a_4$, $a_2$, and the bag constant $B$, and the joined curve is represented as a piecewise polytrope for the evolution codes. The numerical machinery is the BAM code with the Z4c formulation and WENOZ hydrodynamics, whose known second-order phase convergence for hadronic stars provides the baseline against which the first-order degradation is measured. The argument for the paper's main physics comparison is carried by a Richardson extrapolation of the highest two resolutions, $Re_{3,4}$, treating it as the best estimate of the true hybrid-star phase, and comparing it with the hadronic waveform approximant IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal. The convergence-order analysis itself is what identifies the phase transition as the cause of the enlarged uncertainty.

What would settle it

Run an additional higher-resolution simulation of the same hybrid-star configuration, for example with a finer grid spacing than $h_6 = 0.096$, and check whether the phase difference between it and the Richardson-extrapolated waveform $Re_{3,4}$ follows the assumed second-order scaling; if the phase error between the new resolution and $Re_{3,4}$ is not consistent with that scaling, or if the phase difference to IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal exceeds the re-estimated error, the paper's central agreement claim would be overturned.

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Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the central discovery is that a first-order phase transition inside the neutron stars, converting hadronic matter into strange quark matter, changes the numerical behavior of binary neutron star simulations before it changes the physics of the signal. At the three lowest resolutions the gravitational-wave phase converges only to first order in grid spacing, whereas the same code and schemes converge to second order for purely hadronic equations of state; only at the finest resolution is second-order convergence recovered. Using the two highest resolutions to build a Richardson-extrapolated waveform, the paper finds that the phase difference with respect to the hadronic waveform model IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal stays below the estimated numerical error up to merger, which it presents as the first validation of a waveform model against a numerical-relativity dataset that includes a strong phase transition inside the star. The same simulation produces a postmerger frequency consistent with hadronic quasi-universal relations, about half the dynamical ejecta mass of comparable SLy runs, and a disk mass only 15 to 40 percent of the SLy comparison, leading to a predicted kilonova too faint to match AT2017gfo while a rough GRB energy remains compatible with GRB170817A.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the Richardson-extrapolated waveform built from the two finest resolutions represents the true hybrid-star signal, which assumes the phase error between those two resolutions already follows the same second-order scaling used in the extrapolation.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the central claim is right, existing hadronic waveform approximants can be used as a first approximation for mergers of stars with strange quark matter cores, but only with error bars several times larger than for hadronic equations of state.
  • Template production for equations of state with a strong phase transition will require higher resolutions than current standard runs, because the same code that converges to second order for hadronic stars drops to first order when the phase transition is present.
  • The postmerger gravitational-wave frequency of a hybrid star binary can be consistent with quasi-universal relations derived purely from hadronic stars, so a quark core need not leave a detectable imprint in the postmerger spectrum for every equation of state.
  • Mergers of hybrid stars with the studied equation of state retain more mass in the remnant and eject less matter, predicting dimmer kilonovae than GW170817's counterpart while still producing a short-GRB energy compatible with GRB170817A.
  • The simulation provides a first numerical-relativity dataset for inspiral with strange quark matter cores, giving future waveform and ejecta models a target to reproduce.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the convergence-order drop is generic across hybrid equations of state, then published binary neutron star waveforms for equations of state with strong phase transitions may carry larger phase errors than their resolution labels suggest, and convergence order rather than grid spacing should become the quoted accuracy metric.
  • The claimed validation against IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal would be stronger with a same-setup purely hadronic SLy control run; without it, the large error estimate could mask a real phase difference that happens to lie inside the extrapolation uncertainty.
  • A testable extension is to vary the strange quark matter parameters $a_4$, $a_2$, and $B$ for the same numerical setup, which would show whether the convergence-order drop and the ejecta suppression are universal properties of strong phase transitions or artifacts of this particular hybrid equation of state.
  • Because the postmerger frequency stayed within hadronic quasi-universal relations while the ejecta mass dropped sharply, multi-messenger observations may be the more sensitive route to detecting quark cores: a GW170817-like event with a normal gravitational-wave phase but an unusually faint kilonova would be the signature this scenario predicts.
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Referee Report

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Summary. This paper constructs a hybrid neutron-star equation of state by joining the SLy hadronic EoS to a strange-quark-matter phase described by the tdBag model, and presents full numerical-relativity simulations of an equal-mass, non-spinning binary with masses and tidal deformabilities chosen to match GW170817. The authors study the inspiral gravitational-wave phase, the postmerger spectrum, dynamical and disk ejecta, and the expected electromagnetic counterparts. The central claims are: (i) the strong phase transition can reduce the numerical convergence order of the BAM code to first order at low resolution, with second-order convergence recovered at the highest resolutions; (ii) the Richardson-extrapolated waveform Re3,4 agrees with the hadronic-only approximant IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal within the estimated numerical error, providing 'the first validation of a waveform model against a NR dataset including a strong phase transition'; (iii) the postmerger main frequency is consistent with hadronic-derived quasi-universal relations; and (iv) the predicted kilonova is too dim to explain AT2017gfo. The paper includes a complete piecewise-polytrope representation of the hybrid EoS and detailed grid specifications for reproducibility.

Significance. If substantiated, this is a useful first step toward assessing whether existing waveform models are safe for analyses of binaries containing hybrid stars with strong phase transitions. The paper's strengths are its explicit EoS construction, use of four resolutions, comparison against an independent waveform model and quasi-universal relations, and the clear identification of a possible first-order convergence degradation caused by the phase transition. The work does not appear circular: the hybrid EoS parameters are fixed from theoretical constraints rather than fit to the simulations, and the comparative waveform model and postmerger relation are independent hadronic-EoS results. The main significance lies in opening a new numerical-relativity challenge and in providing a first, albeit preliminary, quantitative benchmark for waveform-model validation in the presence of a strong phase transition; the stated limitations about needing higher resolutions are appropriate but leave the headline validation claim only conditionally supported.

major comments (4)
  1. [§5.1, Fig. 5] The central validation claim that φ(Re3,4) − φ(IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal) is below the estimated error Δφ(Re3,4, R4) rests on the assumption that the R3 and R4 phases follow second-order convergence. The Richardson-extrapolated waveform Re3,4 is constructed by rescaling the phase difference under exactly that assumption, and the error estimate is the difference between Re3,4 and R4. If the true local convergence order at R3/R4 is between first and second order, the extrapolation is biased, the error band is mis-centered, and the stated agreement could be spurious. The manuscript does not provide an independent high-resolution run or a same-setup hadronic control to confirm the convergence order; the authors themselves state that 'further evolutions with higher resolutions are required for a more quantitative and stronger test.' This is load-bearing because the validation of a waveform model against a strong-phase-transition dataset is the paper's main physics result.
  2. [§5.1, Fig. 5] The claim that the strong phase transition degrades convergence to first order is inferred from visual comparison of the rescaled phase differences: the dashed yellow line (first-order rescaling of Δφ(R2,R3)) is said to agree well, and the dash-dotted green line (second-order rescaling of Δφ(R3,R4)) indicates recovery of second order. No quantitative convergence factor or Richardson-error diagnostic is provided, and the claim is not tested with a control simulation using only the hadronic SLy EoS at the same resolutions and grid settings. Given that Ref. [53] attributes the second-order convergence to the stellar surface, one cannot exclude that the effect is partly due to the atmosphere or surface treatment rather than the phase transition itself. A quantitative convergence-order analysis, such as a time-dependent fit to the phase differences, would strengthen this claim.
  3. [§5.2, Fig. 6] The statement that the measured postmerger frequency f2 = (3.27 ± 0.1) kHz is 'consistent with the uncertainty of the phenomenological fit [83] combined with the uncertainty of our NR data' is not quantitatively supported in the text. The quoted NR uncertainty is roughly 0.1 kHz, while the prediction from Ref. [83] is 3.55 kHz, a difference of about 0.28 kHz (about 2.8 times the quoted NR uncertainty). The uncertainty of the quasi-universal fit is not stated. To support the claim that quasi-universal relations hold for hybrid EoS, the authors should quote the fit uncertainty and state how the combined uncertainty was evaluated.
  4. [§6, Fig. 8] The conclusion that the kilonova associated with the studied configuration 'would not be bright enough to explain the kilonova associated to GW170817' depends on the assumed disk-wind ejecta mass Mej,wind = 0.017 M⊙, which is exactly half of the final disk mass estimated at the end of the simulation. This value is an input to the light-curve model, not a result of a disk-wind simulation, and the text offers no argument that half of the disk mass is an upper bound or a typical fraction. If the disk wind were more efficient or the lanthanide fraction lower, the predicted brightness could increase. The claim should be phrased as conditional on this assumption, or the sensitivity of the light curves to Mej,wind should be explored.
minor comments (6)
  1. [§5.1] The notation Re3,4 is used before it is defined in the text; a brief definition of the Richardson-extrapolated phase in the main text would aid readability.
  2. [§5.1] The alignment of Re3,4 with IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal is described only as 'minimizing the phase difference within' u ∈ [5,10] ms; it would be useful to specify whether this is a two-parameter time and phase alignment, and to state the sensitivity of the phase difference to the chosen alignment window.
  3. [§5.2] In Eq. (19), the uncertainty is said to include 'the finite width of the peak in the frequency domain spectrum,' but the width is not quantified; stating a full-width-at-half-maximum value would make the error estimate more transparent.
  4. [§6] The sentence 'This estimate agrees to about 30% with resolution R3' is unclear; the authors presumably mean that the result agrees with the R3 resolution within about 30%.
  5. [§5.2] There is a typo in the phrase 'about 450 rmHz higher' — the unit should likely be Hz (or kHz), not 'rmHz'.
  6. [Footnote 4] The word 'hydonic' should be 'hadronic' in the footnote.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity found: hybrid-EoS inputs are constrained independently, and both waveform and postmerger benchmarks derive from hadronic-only simulations.

full rationale

This paper is self-contained against external benchmarks. The hybrid EoS is built from the tdBag model with parameters a4=0.70, a2=5000 MeV^2, B^1/4=150 MeV selected from absolute-stability and positive-transition-pressure conditions; these parameters are not fitted to any simulation output. The central numerical result (first-order convergence at low resolution) emerges from the phase-error scaling of the four resolution runs and is not an input assumption. The waveform comparison uses IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal, which the paper states was constructed from hadronic-EoS NR simulations only ('During its construction only NR simulations with hadronic EOSs were used'), so agreement with hybrid-star NR is an independent test; the same holds for the postmerger frequency comparison against the hadronic-derived quasi-universal relation of Ref. [83]. Self-citations to Dietrich et al. appear for code settings, numerical methods, and earlier hadronic benchmarks, but none supply the target hybrid-star result. The paper's own caveat, 'further evolutions with higher resolutions are required for a more quantitative and stronger test', flags an accuracy limitation in the Richardson-extrapolated error estimate, not a logical dependence of the result on its inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The free parameters are the quark model inputs (a4, a2, B) and an assumed disk wind mass for the kilonova. The axioms are the physical assumptions of the tdBag model, the stable strange matter hypothesis, the sharp first-order phase transition, the SLy hadronic EoS, code reliability, and the applicability of hadronic-EoS empirical relations to hybrid remnants. No new particles, forces, or conserved quantities are introduced.

free parameters (4)
  • a4 (quartic coefficient) = 0.70 (primary), 0.85 (secondary)
    Parameter of the tdBag model controlling QCD corrections to the free Fermi gas pressure; chosen from perturbative QCD estimates, not fitted to simulation outcomes.
  • a2 (quadratic coefficient) = 5000 MeV^2
    Combines strange quark mass and color-superconducting gap (a2 = ms^2 - 4 Delta^2); chosen as an input, variations not explored.
  • B (bag constant) = B^(1/4) = 150 MeV (primary), 157 MeV (secondary)
    Bag constant defining deconfinement energy density; constrained by the absolutely stable strange quark matter hypothesis and by the requirement of positive transition pressure.
  • Disk wind ejecta mass for kilonova model = 0.017 M_sun
    Assumed input for the lightcurve estimate in Fig. 8; not derived from the simulation, which tracks only dynamical ejecta and disk mass.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption The tdBag (MIT-bag-inspired) model correctly describes strange quark matter in the CFL phase.
    Section 2.1; the entire SQM EoS and the phase transition rest on this phenomenological model.
  • domain assumption The absolutely stable strange quark matter hypothesis is valid.
    Section 2.2; used to constrain the allowed parameter space for the hybrid EoS.
  • domain assumption Hadron-quark deconfinement is a first-order phase transition with a sharp interface and local charge neutrality.
    Section 2.2; the hybrid EoS is built as a piecewise function with a constant-pressure segment, excluding mixed phases.
  • domain assumption The SLy hadronic EoS is a valid description of the hadronic phase.
    Section 2.3; used for the low-density part of the hybrid EoS.
  • domain assumption The numerical codes BAM and SGRID produce a converged solution at the highest resolutions with the stated grid settings.
    Section 3.2; the convergence-order analysis and Richardson extrapolation assume this.
  • domain assumption The quasi-universal postmerger relation of Bernuzzi et al. (2015) applies to hybrid EoS remnants.
    Section 5.2; the measured f2 is compared to a relation derived from hadronic EoSs.
  • domain assumption The kilonova model of Kasen et al. (2017) and Coughlin et al. (2018) with the assumed ejecta parameters is a valid predictor of EM counterparts.
    Section 6; the light curves in Fig. 8 are produced with this model.

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The gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures connected to the merger of two neutron stars allow us to test the nature of matter at supranuclear densities. Since the Equation of State governing the interior of neutron stars is only loosely constrained, there is even the possibility that strange quark matter exists inside the core of neutron stars. We investigate how strange quark matter cores affect the binary neutron star coalescence by performing numerical relativity simulations. Interestingly, the strong phase transition can cause a reduction of the convergence order of the numerical schemes to first order if the numerical resolution is not high enough. Therefore, an additional challenge is added in producing high-quality gravitational wave templates for Equation of States with a strong phase transition. Focusing on one particular configuration of an equal mass configuration consistent with GW170817, we compute and discuss the associated gravitational wave signal and some of the electromagnetic counterparts connected to the merger of the two stars. We find that existing waveform approximants employed for the analysis of GW170817 allow describing this kind of systems within the numerical uncertainties, which, however, are several times larger than for pure hadronic Equation of States, which means that even higher resolutions have been employed for an accurate gravitational wave model comparison. We also show that for the chosen Equation of State, quasi-universal relations describing the gravitational wave emission after the moment of merger seem to hold and that the electromagnetic signatures connected to our chosen setup would not be bright enough to explain the kilonova associated to GW170817.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Parameter space (a4 , B) for fixed a2 = 5000 MeV2 . We identify three different regions. The upper region where HM → SQM transitions are possible and describes a HyS. The middle region where SQM is absolutely stable and we found strange stars. The lower region is prohibited due to the instability of SQM. The EoS for SS is given directly by Eq. (7). To obtain the EoS for HyS we must solve Gibbs condition (8) with the… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Left panel: Gibbs free energy g as function of pressure p. For the SQM EoS we set a2 = 5000 MeV2 . The point at which SLy and SQM curves intersect determines the transition pressure pT and the transition Gibbs free energy gT. For pressures greater than pT the SQM free energy becomes lower than the SLy free energy, thus being energetically favorable. Right panel: EoS for the HyS constructed by the junction of the SLy… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Mass-radius curves of the tabulated and piecewise-polytrope EoSs with a4 = 0.70, a2 = 5000 MeV2 and B 1/4 = 150 MeV [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Density evolution within the orbital plain for different time snapshots for the R4 setup. We show the HM on a color scale ranging from blue to red and the SQM on a gray scale [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png]
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The top panel shows the (2,2)-mode of the GW signal for the different resolutions. The bottom panel shows the phase difference between the individual resolutions, where dashed lines show the phase difference rescaled to an assumed first or second order convergence. In …
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Time evolution of the maximum density (green) and the amount of ejected material (dashed blue) and the disk mass (solid blue) for resolution R3. The ejected material is estimated according to Eqs. (14) and (15) of [52], i.e., all material is marked as ejecta as long as…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Estimated absolute magnitude of the kilonova in different frequency band using the methods outlined in [11,98]. methods are applied. This is evidence that HyS mergers add additional complexity to the NR simulations. Further simulations must be done in order to understa…

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