Seminar: Probing subatomic physics with gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals, Tanja Hinderer (Utrecht University)

The gravitational waves from merging neutron star binary systems carry unique information about their internal structure, opening new opportunities for advancing our understanding matter and fundamental interactions in largely unexplored regimes. Extracting this information from the data relies on understanding and modeling the interplay of matter with strong-field, dynamical gravity. I will discuss examples of the gravitational-wave signatures of neutron star matter during the relatively clean, cumulative binary inspiral epoch accessible with current detectors, summarize what we have learned from recent measurements, and conclude with an outlook onto the remaining challenges and exciting prospects for the next years as gravitational-wave science continues to move towards an era of precision physics.