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We study different stages of the neutron star cooling by computing neutron star properties at various temperatures and entropies using an effective chiral model including hadronic and quark degrees of freedom. Macroscopic properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 V. Dexheimer , S. Schramm

Pulsars are among the most mysterious astrophysical objects in the Universe and are believed to be rotating neutron stars formed in supernova explosions. They are unique testing grounds of dense matter theories and gravitational physics and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

One of the most intringuing questions about neutron stars concerns their maximum mass. The answer is intimately related to the properties of matter at densities far beyond that found in heavy atomic nuclei. The current view on the internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 N. Chamel , P. Haensel , J. L. Zdunik , A. F. Fantina

The equation of state (EoS) for neutron stars is a crucial topic in astrophysics, nuclear physics, and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), influencing their structure, stability, and observable properties. This review classifies EoS models into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen , Yan Chen

Recent observations of neutron star masses close to the maximum predicted by nucleonic equations of state begin to challenge our understanding of dense matter in neutron stars, and constrain the possible presence of quark matter in their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gordon Baym

Ever since the discovery of neutron stars it has been realized that they serve as probes of a physical regime that cannot be accessed in laboratories: strongly degenerate matter at several times nuclear saturation density. Existing nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-04 M. Coleman Miller

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter plays an important role in the supernova phenomenon, the structure of neutron stars, and in the mergers of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes). During the collapse phase of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 James M. Lattimer , Madappa Prakash

In this work, we discuss the dense matter equation of state (EOS) for the extreme range of conditions encountered in neutron stars and their mergers. The calculation of the properties of such an EOS involves modeling different degrees of…

Neutron stars are highly compact astrophysical objects and therefore of utmost relevance to learn about theories of gravity. Whereas the proper equation of state of the nuclear matter inside neutron stars is not yet known, and a wide range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 Jutta Kunz

The general behavior of the nuclear equation of state (EOS), relevant for the description of neutron stars (NS), is studied within a relativistic mean field description of nuclear matter. Different formulations, both with density dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Constança Providência , Tuhin Malik , Milena Bastos Albino , Márcio Ferreira

Theoretical models of the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-star matter (starting with the crust and ending at the densest region of the stellar core) are reviewed. Apart from a broad set of baryonic EOSs, strange quark matter, and even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Haensel

Neutron stars have long been regarded as extra-terrestrial laboratories from which we can learn about extreme energy density matter at low temperatures. In this article, I highlight some of the recent advances made in astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Madappa Prakash

We calculate total masses and radii of neutron stars (NS) for pure neutron matter and nuclear matter in beta-equilibrium. We apply a relativistic nuclear matter equation of state (EOS) derived from Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Plamen G. Krastev , Francesca Sammarruca

The equation of state of dense matter determines the structure of neutron stars, their typical radii, and maximum masses. Recent improvements in theoretical modeling of nuclear forces from the low-energy effective field theory of QCD has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Jeremy W. Holt , Yeunhwan Lim

Neutron stars are commonly considered as astronomical objects having highdensity interiors and an inner core region in which various hadronic matter phases are expected. Several studies show that the inner structures affect macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Tomoki Endo

The structure of neutron stars is determined by the equation of state of the matter inside the star, which relies on the knowledge of nuclear interactions. While radii of neutron stars mostly depend on the equation of state of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-20 Stefano Gandolfi , Diego Lonardoni

In this review we highlight a few physical properties of neutron stars and their theoretical treatment inasmuch as they can be useful for nuclear and particle physicists concerned with matter at finite density (and newly, temperature).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-23 Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Eva Lope-Oter

We adopt two- and three-body nuclear forces derived at the next-to-next-to-leading-order (N2LO) in the framework of effective chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) to calculate the equation of state (EOS) of $\beta$-stable neutron star matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Domenico Logoteta , Ignazio Bombaci

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

We contribute a publicly available set of tables and code to provide Equations of State (EoS) for matter at neutron star densities. Our EoSes are constrained only by input from hadron physics and fundamental principles, without feedback…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Eva Lope Oter , Andreas Windisch , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Mark Alford