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A Complete Equation of State for Astrophysical Simulations

Nuclear Theory 2015-12-22 v1

Abstract

We construct a complete equation of state (EOS) covering a wide range of temperature, proton fraction, and baryon density for the use of astrophysical simulations. We employ the relativistic mean-field (RMF) theory to describe nuclear interactions and adopt the Thomas-Fermi approximation to describe the nonuniform nuclear matter. The uniform matter and nonuniform matter are studied consistently using the same RMF theory.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06196,
  title  = {A Complete Equation of State for Astrophysical Simulations},
  author = {Hong Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06196},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of "Quarks and Compact Stars" (QCS 2014)