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Rapidly rotating $\Delta$-resonance-admixed hypernuclear compact stars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-10-09 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We use a set of hadronic equations of state derived from covariant density functional theory to study the impact of their high-density behavior on the properties of rapidly rotating Δ\Delta-resonance-admixed hyperonic compact stars. In particular, we explore systematically the effects of variations of the bulk energy isoscalar skewness, QsatQ_{\mathrm{sat}}, and the symmetry energy slope, LsymL_{\mathrm{sym}}, on the masses of rapidly rotating compact stars. With models for equation of state satisfying all the modern astrophysical constraints, excessively large gravitational masses of around 2.5M2.5 \, M_{\odot} are only obtained under three conditions: (a) strongly attractive Δ\Delta-resonance potential in nuclear matter, (b) maximally fast (Keplerian) rotation, and (c) parameter ranges Qsat500Q_{\mathrm{sat}}\gtrsim500 MeV and Lsym50L_{\mathrm{sym}}\lesssim50 MeV. These values of QsatQ_{\mathrm{sat}} and LsymL_{\mathrm{sym}} have a rather small overlap with a large sample (total of about 260) parametrizations of covariant nucleonic density functionals. The extreme nature of requirements (a)-(c) reinforces the theoretical expectation that the secondary object involved in the GW190814 event is likely to be a low-mass black hole rather than a supramassive neutron star.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02901,
  title  = {Rapidly rotating $\Delta$-resonance-admixed hypernuclear compact stars},
  author = {Jia Jie Li and Armen Sedrakian and Fridolin Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02901},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages with 5 figures, matches published version

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