Speaker
Andrea Maselli
(Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
Description
Universal I-Love-Q relations connect the moment of inertia, the tidal Love numbers
and the quadrupole moment of a neutron star. Such identities are nearly independent
from the star internal composition, and therefore they represent a valuable tool to test
its features irrespective of the equation of state.
In this talk will review the recent progress on the field. I will explore the
domain of validity of I-Love-Q relations, and the attempts to provide a comprehensive description of their physical origin. Finally, I will show the prospect to use them
with future gravitational and electromagnetic observations,
to constraint the neutron star internal composition, and to derive information on its physical environment.
Primary author
Andrea Maselli
(Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
