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We discuss the relativistic nuclear equation of state (EOS) using a relativistic transport model in heavy-ion collisions. From the baryon flow for $Au + Au$ systems at SIS to AGS energies and above we find that the strength of the vector…

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The equation of state for the beta stable nuclear matter is calculated numerically, and then the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation for the structure of the neutron star is solved in the fourth-order Runge-Kutta algorithm. It shows the mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-08-07 Chang-Geng Liu , Bao-Xi Sun

The increasing number and precision of measurements of neutron star masses, radii, and, in the near future, moments of inertia offer the possibility of precisely determining the neutron star equation of state. One way to facilitate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Carolyn A. Raithel , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

We derive a new equation of state (EoS) for neutron stars (NS) from the outer crust to the core based on modern microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) calculations using the Argonne $v_{18}$ potential plus three-body forces computed with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-02 B. K. Sharma , M. Centelles , X. Vinas , M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

The neutron star maximum mass and the radius are investigated within the framework of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. The variation in the radius at the canonical mass, $R_{1.4}$, using different inner crust equation of state (EoS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-19 Ishfaq Ahmad Rather , Anisul Ain Usmani , Suresh Kumar Patra

Background: Constraining the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS) from neutron star observations is one of the main subjects in nuclear physics today. In general, neutron stars rotate rapidly and structure of neutron stars can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Hyukjin Kwon , Kazuyuki Sekizawa

Latest general relativistic simulations for merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state (EOSs) show that a hypermassive neutron star of an ellipsoidal figure is formed after the merger if the total mass is smaller than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata

We discuss the Mass -Radius diagram for static neutron star models obtained by the numerical solution of modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations in $f(R)$ gravity where the Lagrangians $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2 (1+\gamma R)$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Ruben Farinelli , Sergei D. Odintsov

Neutrons stars lighter than the Sun are basically composed of nuclear matter of density up to around twice normal nuclear density. In our recent analyses, we showed that possible simultaneous observations of masses and radii of such neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hajime Sotani , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

Neutron stars (NSs) are excellent natural laboratories to constrain gravity on strong field regime and nuclear matter in extreme conditions. Motivated by the recent discovery of a compact object with $2.59^{+0.08}_{-0.09} M_\odot$ in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-07 Rafael C. Nunes , Jaziel G. Coelho , José C. N. de Araujo

We study the existence and structure of static and slowly rotating neutron stars (NSs) in a particular truncation of scalar torsion theory with a scalar field $ \phi $ non-minimally coupled to the torsion scalar, and a potential of the form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Youcef Kehal , Khireddine Nouicer , Hamza Boumaza

We study the structure of neutron stars in $f(R)=R+\alpha R^{2}$ theory of gravity (Starobinsky model), in an exact and non-perturbative approach. In this model, apart from the standard General Relativistic junction conditions, two extra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-01 Apratim Ganguly , Radouane Gannouji , Rituparno Goswami , Subharthi Ray

We try to constrain the Equation-of-State (EoS) of supra-nuclear-density matter in neutron stars (NSs) by observations of nearby NSs. There are seven thermally emitting NSs known from X-ray and optical observations, the so-called…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Neuhäuser , V. V. Hambaryan , M. M. Hohle , T. Eisenbeiss

The structure of neutron stars is considered from theoretical and observational perspectives. We demonstrate an important aspect of neutron star structure: the neutron star radius is primarily determined by the behavior of the pressure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

Based on the distribution of tidal deformabilities and component masses of binary neutron star merger GW170817, the parametric equation of states (EOS) are employed to probe the nuclear symmetry energy and the properties of neutron star. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-22 Yuxi Li , Houyuan Chen , Dehua Wen , Jing Zhang

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 determination of the equation of state (EOS) for nuclear matter has been one of the biggest problems in nuclear astrophysics, because the EOS is essential for determining the properties of neutron stars. To constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Hajime Sotani , Nobuya Nishimura , Tomoya Naito

We investigate a conservative formulation of $f(R,T)$ gravity motivated by a key limitation of several existing approaches: the gravitational function is often reconstructed from a chosen equation of state, making the gravity sector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Ronaldo V. Lobato , Geanderson A. Carvalho , Carlos E. C. Montaña , Jose F. Rodriguez-Ruiz

In the present paper we investigate the structure of relativistic stars in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The mass-radius relations are obtained for realistic hadronic and for strange quark star equations of state, and for a wide range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev