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From the microscopic to the macroscopic world: from nucleons to neutron stars

Nuclear Theory 2019-09-25 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Recent observations of neutron-star properties, in particular the recent detection of gravitational waves emitted from binary neutron stars, GW 170817, open the way to put strong constraints on nuclear interactions. In this paper, we review the state of the art in calculating the equation of state of strongly interacting matter from first principle calculations starting from microscopic interactions among nucleons. We then review selected properties of neutron stars that can be directly compared with present and future observations.

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@article{arxiv.1903.06730,
  title  = {From the microscopic to the macroscopic world: from nucleons to neutron stars},
  author = {S. Gandolfi and J. Lippuner and A. W. Steiner and I. Tews and X. Du and M. Al-Mamun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06730},
  year   = {2019}
}

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28 pages, 9 figures, Special Issue Article for Journal of Physics G