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Comment on "Tidal Love numbers of neutron and self-bound quark stars"

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-10-14 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We comment on the paper of S. Postnikov et al. in Phys. Rev. D 82, 024016 (2010) and give a modified formula that needs to be taken into account when calculating the tidal Love number of neutron stars in case a first order phase-transition occurs at non-zero pressure. We show that the error made when using the original formula tends to zero as p0p \rightarrow 0 and we estimate the maximum relative error to be 5%\sim 5\% if the density discontinuity is at larger densities.

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@article{arxiv.2007.01139,
  title  = {Comment on "Tidal Love numbers of neutron and self-bound quark stars"},
  author = {János Takátsy and Péter Kovács},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01139},
  year   = {2020}
}

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3 pages, 3 figures