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Implications from GW170817 for $\Delta$-isobar admixed hypernuclear compact stars

Nuclear Theory 2019-04-16 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The effects of Δ\Delta isobars on the equation of state of dense matter and structure of compact stars (CSs) are explored within the covariant density functional theory and confronted with the data on tidal deformability (TD) extracted from the GW170817 event. We show that the presence of Δ\Delta isobars substantially softens the tension between the predictions of the hypernuclear density functionals and the inference from the observations of relatively small radius and small TD of canonical mass CSs. The TDs deduced from GW170817 are compatible with the existence of hypernuclear CSs containing an admixture of Δ\Delta isobars. We thus argue that the GW170817 event is consistent with a merger of a binary CS system having both strangeness (hyperons) and Δ\Delta isobars in the stellar core.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1904.02006,
  title  = {Implications from GW170817 for $\Delta$-isobar admixed hypernuclear compact stars},
  author = {Jia Jie Li and Armen Sedrakian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02006},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, matches published version

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