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In simulations of binary neutron star mergers, the dense matter equation of state (EOS) is required over wide ranges of density and temperature as well as under conditions in which neutrinos are trapped, and the effects of magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Lalit , M. A. A. Mamun , C. Constantinou , M. Prakash

The low density nuclear matter equation of state is strongly constrained by nuclear properties, however, for constraining the high density equation of state it is necessary to resort to indirect information obtained from the observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

We investigate the properties of nuclear matter at the first-order phase transitions such as liquid-gas phase transition and hadron-quark phase transition. As a general feature of the first-order phase transitions of matter consisting of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-10 Toshiki Maruyama , Nobutoshi Yasutake , Toshitaka Tatsumi

Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagnetic observations of the associated kilonovae allow us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Kelsey A. Lund , Rahul Somasundaram , Gail C. McLaughlin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower , Ingo Tews

We perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

The neutron-skin thickness of heavy nuclei provides a fundamental link to the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, and hence to the properties of neutron stars. The Lead Radius Experiment ("PREX") at Jefferson Laboratory has recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Piekarewicz

Uncertainties in our knowledge of the properties of dense matter near and above nuclear saturation density are among the main sources of variations in multi-messenger signatures predicted for core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 A. S. Schneider , L. F. Roberts , C. D. Ott , E. O'connor

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

In view of the great uncertainty of the equation of state (EOS) of high-density nuclear matter, establishing EOS-independent universal relations between global properties of neutron stars provides a practical way to constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Zehan Wu , Dehua Wen

The nuclear mean-field potentials obtained in the Hartree-Fock method with different choices of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction have been used to study the equation of state (EOS) of the neutron star (NS) matter. The EOS of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-02 Doan Thi Loan , Ngo Hai Tan , Dao T. Khoa , Jerome Margueron

With ongoing advancements in nuclear theory and experimentation, together with a growing body of neutron star (NS) observations, a wealth of information on the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities has become accessible.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Bhaskar Biswas , Stephan Rosswog

The question of correlations among empirical equation of state (EoS) parameters constrained by nuclear observables is addressed in a fully empirical meta-modeling approach. A recently proposed meta-modeling for the nuclear EoS in nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 D. Chatterjee , F. Gulminelli , Ad. R. Raduta , J. Margueron

We develop a density-dependent quark mean-field (DDQMF) model to study the properties of nuclear matter and neutron stars, where the coupling strength between $\sigma$ meson and nucleon is generated by the degree of freedom of quarks, while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-21 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen

We apply Bayesian approach to construct a large number of minimally constrained equations of state (EOSs) and study their correlations with a few selected properties of a neutron star (NS). Our set of minimal constraints includes a few…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-26 N. K. Patra , Sk Md Adil Imam , B. K. Agrawal , Arunava Mukherjee , Tuhin Malik

We compare three different statistical models for the equation of state (EOS) of stellar matter at subnuclear densities and temperatures (0.5-10 MeV) expected to occur during the collapse of massive stars and supernova explosions. The…

Microscopic studies of nuclear matter under diverse conditions of density and asymmetry are of great contemporary interest. Concerning terrestrial applications, they relate to future experimental facilities that will make it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Sammarruca

The core collapse of a massive star results in the formation of a proto-neutron star (PNS). If enough material is accreted onto a PNS it will become gravitationally unstable and further collapse into a black-hole (BH). We perform a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 A. S. Schneider , E. O'Connor , E. Granqvist , A. Betranhandy , S. M. Couch

A proto-neutron star (PNS) is a newly formed compact object in a core collapse supernova. In this Letter, the neutrino emission from the cooling process of a PNS is investigated using two types of nuclear equation of state (EOS). It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Hideyuki Suzuki , Hajime Togashi

The observation of $1.97\pm0.04$ solar-mass neutron-like star gives constraint on the equation of state (EOS) of cold, condensed matter. In this paper, the EOS for both pure quark star and hybrid star with a quark core described by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yan Yan , Jing Cao , Xin-Lian Luo , Wei-Min Sun , Hongshi Zong

We present an updated general purpose nuclear equation of state (EoS) for use in simulations of core-collapse supernovae, neutron star mergers and black hole collapse. This EoS is formulated in the context of Density Functional Theory (DFT)…