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Constraints from compact star observations on non-Newtonian gravity in strange stars based on a density dependent quark mass model

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-03-03 v1

Abstract

Using a density dependent quark mass (QMDD) model for strange quark matter, we investigate the effects of non-Newtonian gravity on the properties of strange stars and constrain the parameters of the QMDD model by employing the mass of PSR J0740+6620 and the tidal deformability of GW170817. We find that for QMDD model these mass and tidal deformability observations would rule out the existenceof str ange stars if non-Newtonian gravity effects are ignored. For the current quark masses of mu0=2.16m_{u0}=2.16 MeV, md0=4.67m_{d0}=4.67 MeV, and ms0=93m_{s0}=93 MeV, we find that a strange star can exist for values of the non-Newtonian gravity parameter g2/μ2g^{2}/\mu^{2} in the range of 4.58 GeV2g2/μ2^{-2}\leq g^{2}/\mu^{2}\leq 9.32 GeV2^{-2}, and that the parameters DD and CC of the QMDD modelare restricted to 158.3 MeVD1/2\leq D^{1/2}\leq 181.2 MeV and 0.65C0.12-0.65\leq C \leq -0.12. It is found that the largest possible maximum mass of a strange star obtained with the QMDD model is 2.42M2.42 \, M_{\odot}, and that the secondary componentof GW190814 with a mass of 2.59_{-0.09}^{+0.08}\, M_{\dot} could not be a static strange star. We also find that forthe mass and radius of PSR J0030+0451 given by Riley et al. through the analysis of observational data of NICER, there exists a very tiny allowed parameter space for which strange stars computed for the QMDD model agree with the observations of PSR J0740+6620, GW17 0817 and PSR J0030+0451 simultaneously. However, for the mass and radius given by Miller et al., no such parameter space exist.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2101.11192,
  title  = {Constraints from compact star observations on non-Newtonian gravity in strange stars based on a density dependent quark mass model},
  author = {Shu-Hua Yang and Chun-Mei Pi and Xiao-Ping Zheng and Fridolin Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11192},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. D