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The possibility of observationally discriminating between various types of neutron stars, described by different equations of state of the nuclear matter, as well as differentiating neutron stars from other types of exotic objects, like,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Z. Kovács , K. S. Cheng , T. Harko

The aim of this study is to construct a simple stellar model with non-uniform polytropic index. We find that the Emden equation cannot deal with the polytrope gas sphere with non-uniform polytropic index in a real star, and then we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Xing Wei

We obtain well behaved interior solutions describing hydrostatic equilibrium of anisotropic relativistic stars in scale-dependent gravity, where Newton's constant is allowed to vary with the radial coordinate throughout the star. Assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-26 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Angel Rincon , Ilidio Lopes

An equation of state is considered that, in superdense nuclear matter, results in a phase transition of the first kind from the nucleon state to the quark state with a transition parameter Lambda> 3/2. A calculation of the integrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 G. B. Alaverdyan , A. R. Harutyunyan , Yu. L. Vartanyan

We study relativistic stars in the scale-dependent scenario, which is one of the approaches to quantum gravity, and where Newton's constant is promoted to a scale-dependent quantity. First, the generalized structure equations are derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ángel Rincón , Ilídio Lopes

Neutron star matter spans a wide range of densities, from that of nuclei at the surface to exceeding several times normal nuclear matter density in the core. While terrestrial experiments, such as nuclear or heavy-ion collision experiments,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Suprovo Ghosh , Debarati Chatterjee , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Assuming static and spherically symmetric stars with perfect fluid matter, we used realistic equations of state to study neutron stars in covariant $f(Q)$ gravity. The structure profiles and properties of neutron stars such as mass, radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 Muhammad Azzam Alwan , Tomohiro Inagaki , B. Mishra , S. A. Narawade

One of the key ingredients to understand the properties of neutrons stars is the equation of state at finite densities far beyond nuclear saturation. Investigating the phase structure of quark matter that might be realized in the core of NS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 T. Klahn , C. D. Roberts , D. B. Blaschke , F. Sandin

Compact stars consisting of massless quark matter and fermionic dark matter are studied by solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for two fluids separately. Dark matter is further investigated by incorporating inter-fermionic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Payel Mukhopadhyay , Juregen Schaffner-Bielich

Astrophysical observations of neutron stars probe the structure of dense nuclear matter and have the potential to reveal phase transitions at high densities. Most recent analyses are based on parametrized models of the equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Reed Essick , Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Sophia Han , Philippe Landry

Recently, observations of compact stars have provided new data of high accuracy which put strong constraints on the high-density behaviour of the equation of state of strongly interacting matter otherwise not accessible in terrestrial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Blaschke , T. Klahn , F. Sandin

The existence of a star with such a large mass means that the equation of state is stiff enough to provide a high enough pressure up to a fairly large central densities,. Such a stiff equation of state is possible if the ground state has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-04 Vikram Soni , Mitja Rosina

In this paper, we construct a viable strange star model in the framework of the equation of state, $p_r=\frac{1}{3}(\rho-4B)$, proposed in the MIT bag model, where $B$ is termed as the bag constant. Considering extreme Wood-Saxon-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Sourav Biswas , Debadri Bhattacharjee , Pradip Kumar Chattopadhyay , Nawal H. Siddig , Euaggelos E. Zotos , Laila Abdulaziz Al-Essa

We study cold strange quark stars employing an enhanced version of the quark-mass density-dependent model which incorporates excluded volume effects to address non-perturbative QCD repulsive interactions. We provide a comparative analysis…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-29 G. Lugones , A. G. Grunfeld

We introduce a new approach to a century old assumption which enhances not only planetary interior calculations but also high pressure material physics. We show that the polytropic index is the derivative of the bulk modulus with respect to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 S. P. Weppner , J. P. McKelvey , K. D. Thielen , A. K. Zielinski

Non-radial oscillation modes of a neutron star possess valuable information about its internal structure and nuclear physics. Starting from the quadrupolar order, such modes under general relativity are known as quasi-normal modes since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Shu Yan Lau , Siddarth Ajith , Victor Guedes , Kent Yagi

Quark stars are terrestrial laboratories to study fundamental physics at ultrahigh densities and temperatures. In this work, we investigate the internal structure and the physical properties of quark stars (QSs) in the Rastall gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Takol Tangphati , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj , Anirudh Pradhan

We study a new class of equilibrium two-parametric distribution functions of spherical stellar systems with radially anisotropic velocity distribution of stars. The models are less singular counterparts of the so called generalized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 E. V. Polyachenko , V. L. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman

The collective modes of QCD at temperatures and densities above its phase-transition are analyzed for isotropic systems as well as for systems having an anisotropy in momentum-space using the HTL approximation. For isotropic systems,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Romatschke

We investigate non-radial oscillations of hadronic, hybrid and pure self-bound strange quark stars with maximum masses above the mass of the recently observed massive pulsars PSR J1614-2230 and PSR J0348-0432 with $M \approx 2 M_{\odot}$.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-01 C. V. Flores , G. Lugones