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Quark matter is believed to exist in the center of neutron stars. A combined model consisting of quark matter and ordinary matter is used to show that the extreme conditions existing in the center could result in a topology change, that is,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We study the oscillations of relativistic stars, incorporating key physics associated with internal composition, thermal gradients and crust elasticity. Our aim is to develop a formalism which is able to account for the state-of-the-art…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 C. J. Krüger , W. C. G. Ho , N. Andersson

We numerically explore the pasta structures and properties of low-density nuclear matter without any assumption on the geometry. We observe conventional pasta structures, while a mixture of the pasta structures appears as a metastable state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Minoru Okamoto , Toshiki Maruyama , Kazuhiro Yabana , Toshitaka Tatsumi

We have investigated the crustal properties of neutron stars without fallback accretion. We have calculated the chemical evolution of the neutron star crust in three different cases (a modified Urca process without the thermal influence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kelsey Hoffman , Jeremy Heyl

The dense neutron-rich matter found in supernovae and neutron stars is expected to form complex nonuniform phases referred to as nuclear pasta. The pasta shapes depend on density, temperature and proton fraction and determine many transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-03 A. S. Schneider , D. K. Berry , C. M. Briggs , M. E. Caplan , C. J. Horowitz

We investigate the effects of the symmetry energy on nuclear pasta phases and the crust-core transition in neutron stars. We employ the relativistic mean-field approach and the coexisting phases method to study the properties of pasta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 S. S. Bao , H. Shen

We study breaking properties of a solid neutron star crust. We consider the case in which the crust at any fixed density consists of two types ions, forming a strongly ordered Coulomb crystal. It is shown that the breaking stress of a such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Andrew Kozhberov

In low-density nuclear matter which is relevant to the crust region of neutron stars and collapsing stage of supernovae, non-uniform structures called "nuclear pasta" are expected. So far, most works on nuclear pasta have used the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Minoru Okamoto , Toshiki Maruyama , Kazuhiro Yabana , Toshitaka Tatsumi

The poorly known crustal equation of state plays a critical role in many observational phenomena associated with a neutron star. Using semi-classical Monte Carlo simulations, we explore the possible configurations of the inner edge of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 R. Shafieepour , H. R. Moshfegh , J. Piekarewicz

Thermal evolution of neutron stars is known to depend on the properties of superdense matter in neutron star cores. We suggest a statistical analysis of isolated cooling middle-aged neutron stars and old transiently accreting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-16 M. V. Beznogov , D. G. Yakovlev

The impact of nuclear physics theories on cooling of isolated neutron stars is analyzed. Physical properties of neutron star matter important for cooling are reviewed such as composition, the equation of state, superfluidity of various…

The NJL model has recently been extended with a method to simulate confinement. This leads in mean field approximation to a natural mechanism for the saturation of nuclear matter. We use the model to investigate the equation of state of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-17 S. Lawley , W. Bentz , A. W. Thomas

We present a unified description of dense matter and neutron-star structure based on simple but physically motivated models. Starting from the thermodynamics of degenerate Fermi gases, we construct an equation of state for cold, catalyzed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Elissaios Andronopoulos , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We study the structure and evolution of neutron stars (NS) the interiors of which are modeled using microscopic approaches and constrained by the condition that the equation of state (EoS) of matter extrapolated to high densities should not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hovik Grigorian

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

For more than three decades, the inner crust of neutron stars, formed of a solid lattice of nuclear clusters coexisting with a gas of electrons and neutrons, has been traditionally studied in the Wigner-Seitz approximation. The validity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 N. Chamel

Measurements of neutron-star macrophysical properties thanks to multimessenger observations offer the possibility to constrain the properties of nuclear matter. Indeed cold and dense matter as found inside neutron stars, in particular in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-09 Lami Suleiman , Morgane Fortin , Julian Leszek Zdunik , Pawel Haensel

Structure of cold dense matter at subnuclear densities is investigated by quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations. We succeeded in showing that the phases with slab-like and rod-like nuclei etc. can be formed dynamically from hot…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gentaro Watanabe , Katsuhiko Sato , Kenji Yasuoka , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

A Bayesian method is used in this extensive work to generate a large set of minimally constrained equations of state (EOSs) for matters in neutron stars (NS). These EOSs are analyzed for their correlations with key NS properties, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. K. Patra

The cell structure of clusters in the inner crust of a cold \beta-equilibrium neutron star is studied within a Thomas Fermi approach and compared with other approaches which include shell effects. Relativistic nuclear models are considered.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Fabrizio Grill , Sidney S. Avancini , Constança Providência