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 and we estimate the maximum relative error to be if the density discontinuity is at larger densities.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
3 pages, 3 figures