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We develop a new method to measure neutron star parameters and derive constraints on the equation of state of dense matter by fitting the frequencies of simultaneous Quasi Periodic Oscillation modes observed in the X-ray flux of accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrea Maselli , George Pappas , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Sara Motta , Valeria Ferrari , Luigi Stella

The equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter is a key factor to determine the internal structure and properties of neutron stars. However, the EOS of high-density nuclear matter has great uncertainty mainly because the terrestrial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Zehan Wu , Dehua Wen

We perform a systematic analysis of neutron star radius constraints from five quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries and examine how they depend on measurements of their distances and amounts of intervening absorbing material, as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-20 James M. Lattimer , Andrew W. Steiner

Inference of the equation-of-state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter in neutron-star cores is a principal science goal of X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. In particular, gravitational-wave observations provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rahul Kashyap , Arnab Dhani , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

The equation of state of cold supra-nuclear-density matter, such as in neutron stars, is an open question in astrophysics. A promising method for constraining the neutron star equation of state is modelling pulse profiles of thermonuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 A. L. Stevens , J. D. Fiege , D. A. Leahy , S. M. Morsink

The high-density behavior of nuclear matter is analyzed within a relativistic mean-field description with non-linear meson interactions. To assess the model parameters and their output, a Bayesian inference technique is used. The Bayesian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , Milena Bastos Albino , Constança Providência

Using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) for the core of neutron stars (NSs) within the Bayesian statistical approach, we infer the EOS parameters of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter from three sets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-07 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

Astrophysical observations from NICER and gravitational wave data constrain the properties of matter at the cores of neutron stars, enabling us to probe high-density matter with greater accuracy. To understand its implications for neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Asim Kumar Saha , Tuhin Malik , Ritam Mallick

The radius $R_{1.4}$ of neutron stars (NSs) with a mass of 1.4 M$_{\odot}$ has been extracted consistently in many recent studies in the literature. Using representative $R_{1.4}$ data, we infer high-density nuclear symmetry energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

A considerable effort has been dedicated recently to the construction of generic equations of state (EOSs) for matter in neutron stars. The advantage of these approaches is that they can provide model-independent information on the interior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-10 Carlo Musolino , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla

A Bayesian method is used in this extensive work to generate a large set of minimally constrained equations of state (EOSs) for matters in neutron stars (NS). These EOSs are analyzed for their correlations with key NS properties, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. K. Patra

Neutron stars provide a unique laboratory for studying matter at extreme pressures and densities. While there is no direct way to explore their interior structure, X-rays emitted from these stars can indirectly provide clues to the equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Delaney Farrell , Pierre Baldi , Jordan Ott , Aishik Ghosh , Andrew W. Steiner , Atharva Kavitkar , Lee Lindblom , Daniel Whiteson , Fridolin Weber

Recently exploratory studies were performed on the possibility of constraining the neutron star equation of state (EOS) using signals from coalescing binary neutron stars, or neutron star-black hole systems, as they will be seen in upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-05 Michalis Agathos , Jeroen Meidam , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Marco Tompitak , John Veitch , Salvatore Vitale , Chris Van Den Broeck

The frequencies and damping times of the non radial oscillations of neutron stars are computed for a set of recently proposed equations of state (EOS) which describe matter at supranuclear densites. These EOS are obtained within two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Benhar , V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri

One of the primary science goals of the next generation of hard X-ray timing instruments is to determine the equation of state of the matter at supranuclear densities inside neutron stars, by measuring the radius of neutron stars with…

The non-radial oscillations of the neutron stars (NSs) have been suggested as a useful tool to probe the composition of neutron star matter (NSM). With this scope in mind, we consider a large number of equations of states (EOSs) that are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Deepak Kumar , Tuhin Malik , Hiranmaya Mishra , Constança Providência

Properties and structure of neutron stars are determined by the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich stellar matter. While the collective flow and particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have constrained tightly the EOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 Aaron Worley , Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

The EOS of strongly interacting matter at densities ten to fifteen orders of magnitude larger than the typical density of terrestrial macroscopic objects determines a number of neutron star properties, including the pattern of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Benhar

Observations with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have resulted in the discovery of fast (200 - 600 Hz), coherent X-ray intensity oscillations (hereafter, "burst oscillations") during thermonuclear X-ray bursts from 12 low mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tod E. Strohmayer

Neutron stars (NSs) probe the high-density regime of the nuclear equation of state (EOS). However, inferring the EOS from observations of NSs is a computationally challenging task. In this work, we efficiently solve this inverse problem by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Thibeau Wouters , Peter T. H. Pang , Hauke Koehn , Henrik Rose , Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck
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