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Description
Gravitational-wave astronomy has entered the era of precision modeling, where spin precession, tidal effects, and high-order relativistic corrections are routinely included in waveform analyses. Beyond these well-studied ingredients, it is important to assess rarer phenomena that may nevertheless carry profound physical implications. In this talk, I will present a potentially powerful effect—spin–orbit resonance locking in NSBH and BNS inspirals. Such locking can occur if the neutron star has finite ellipticity, arising from, for example, strong internal magnetic fields, a solid quark core, or other exotic structures.
I will discuss the capability of Advanced LIGO and next-generation observatories to detect such extreme events. A detection would have rich physical implications: measuring the ellipticity would provide direct evidence for magnetars in binaries and allow inference of their internal magnetic fields; offering the most precise way to measure the neutron star moment of inertia, which enables stringent constraints on the dense-matter equation of state, unique tests of general relativity (via the I–Love relation), and even test of exotic compact objects (ECOs).
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