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Pulse profile modeling of X-ray data from NICER is now enabling precision inference of neutron star mass and radius. Combined with nuclear physics constraints from chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT), and masses and tidal…

We present a systematic study of the evolution of intermediate- and low-mass X-ray binaries consisting of an accreting neutron star of mass $1.0-1.8 M_{\odot}$ and a donor star of mass $1.0-6.0 M_{\odot}$. In our calculations we take into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yong Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

The slope of the neutron star mass-radius curve, $dM/dR$, is studied to understand the information it may carry about the composition of neutron stars, particularly with regard to the presence of non-nucleonic degrees of freedom. This study…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

The distribution of the spin frequencies of neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries exhibits a cut-off at 730 Hz, below the break-up frequency (mass-shedding limit) of neutron stars. The absence of the sub-millisecond pulsars presents a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-07 Sercan Çıkıntoğlu , K. Yavuz Ekşi

In the context of f(R) gravity theories, we show that the apparent mass of a neutron star as seen from an observer at infinity is numerically calculable but requires careful matching, first at the star's edge, between interior and exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-14 Miguel Aparicio Resco , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Victor Zapatero Castrillo

We report on new orbit-minimum photometry and revised radial-velocity fitting that provide an improved measurement of the mass of the neutron star (NS) in pulsar PSR~J0952$-$0607 at $M_NS = 2.35\pm 0.11 M_\odot$. With its fast spin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Roger W. Romani , Maya Beleznay , Alexei V. Filippenko , Thomas G. Brink , WeiKang Zheng

We investigate the properties of the neutron star with relativistic mean field models. We incorporate in the quantum hadrodynamics and in the quark-meson coupling models a possible reduction of meson masses in nuclear matter. The equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Ryu , C. H. Hyun , S. W. Hong , B. K. Jennings

The merger of binary neutron stars is likely to lead to differentially rotating remnants. In this paper, we survey several cold nuclear equations of state (EOSs) and numerically construct models of differentially rotating neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian A. Morrison , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

We investigate the effects of prior selection on the inferred mass and spin parameters of the neutron star-black hole merger GW230529\_181500. Specifically, we explore models motivated by astrophysical considerations, including massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Debatri Chattopadhyay , Sama Al-Shammari , Fabio Antonini , Stephen Fairhurst , Benjamin Miles , Vivien Raymond

Gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers provide valuable information about neutron star structure and the equation of state of dense nuclear matter. Numerous methods have been proposed to analyze the population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Jacob Golomb , Colm Talbot

We study the solution space of general relativistic, axisymmetric, equilibria of differentially rotating neutron stars with realistic, nuclear equations of state. We find that different types of stars, which were identified by earlier works…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Pedro Espino , Vasileios Paschalidis

The results of the investigation of the core-envelope model presented in Negi et al. \cite{Ref1} have been discussed in view of the reference \cite{Ref2} . It is seen that there are significant changes in the results to be addressed. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-04 P S Negi

By assuming the formation of a black hole soon after the merger event of GW170817, Shibata et al. updated the constraints on the maximum mass ($M_\textrm{max}$) of a stable neutron star within $\lesssim$ 2.3 $M_{\odot}$, but there is no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Xuhao Wu , Shuang Du , Renxin Xu

An understanding of spin frequency ($\nu$) evolution of neutron stars in the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) phase is essential to explain the observed $\nu$-distribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), and to probe the stellar and binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Sudip Bhattacharyya

We determine an empirical dense matter equation of state from a heterogeneous dataset of six neutron stars: three type I X-ray bursters with photospheric radius expansion, studied by Ozel et al., and three transient low-mass X-ray binaries.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrew W. Steiner , James M. Lattimer , Edward F. Brown

Transitions of nuclear compositions in the crust of a neutron star induced by stellar spin-down are evaluated at zero temperature. We construct a compressible liquid-drop model for the energy of nuclei immersed in a neutron gas, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

Soft X-ray Transients (SXRTs) have long been suspected to contain old, weakly magnetic neutron stars that have been spun up by accretion torques. After reviewing their observational properties, we analyse the different regimes that likely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Campana , M. Colpi , S. Mereghetti , L. Stella , M. Tavani

The existence of neutron stars with $2M_\odot$ requires the strong stiffness of the equation of state (EoS) of neutron-star matter. We introduce a multi-pomeron exchange potential (MPP) working universally among 3- and 4-baryons to stiffen…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Y. Yamamoto , H. Togashi , T. Tamagawa , T. Furumoto , N. Yasutake , Th. A. Rijken

We systematically study late-time tails of scalar waves propagating in neutron star spacetimes. We consider uniform density neutron stars, for which the background spacetime is analytic and the compaction of the star can be varied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Vasiliki Pavlidou , Konstantinos Tassis , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

Prospects of establishing the radii of massive neutron stars in PSR J1614-2230 and PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and Chandra observatories hold the potential to constrain the equation of state (EoS) of matter to densities well beyond those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-27 Sophia Han , Madappa Prakash