Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic equations of state and their gravitational wave signatures in binary inspiral

Tanja Hinderer, Benjamin D. Lackey, Ryan N. Lang, and Jocelyn S. Read Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA Department of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany (Received 18 November 2009; published 23 June 2010)