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We perform population synthesis studies of different types of neutron stars taking into account the magnetic field decay. For the first time, we confront our results with observations using {\it simultaneously} the Log N -- Log S…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. B. Popov , P. A. Boldin , J. A. Miralles , J. A. Pons , B. Posselt

Recent rapid progress in neutron-star (NS) observations offers great potential to constrain the properties of strongly interacting matter under the most extreme conditions. In order to fully exploit the current observational inputs and to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-17 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Evangelia Katerini , Aleksi Kurkela , Joonas Nättilä , Vasileios Paschalidis , Aleksi Vuorinen

The stability criteria of rapid mass transfer and common-envelope evolution are fundamental in binary star evolution. They determine the mass, mass ratio, and orbital distribution of many important systems, such as X-ray binaries, type Ia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Hongwei Ge , Zhanwen Han

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

The maximum mass of a neutron star is generally determined by the equation of state of the star material. In this study, we take into account dark matter particles, assumed to behave like fermions with a free parameter to account for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Ang Li , Feng Huang , Ren-Xin Xu

We perform population synthesis studies of different types of neutron stars (thermally emitting isolated neutron stars, normal radio pulsars, magnetars) taking into account the magnetic field decay and using results from the most recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 S. B. Popov , J. A. Pons , J. A. Miralles , P. A. Boldin , B. Posselt

In this work, we investigate neutron stars (NSs) in the strong field regime within the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity, considering three representative models: linear, logarithmic, and exponential. While Bayesian studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Sneha Pradhan , N. K. Patra , Kai Zhou , P. K. Sahoo

Population synthesis studies constitute a powerful method to reconstruct the birth distribution of periods and magnetic fields of the pulsar population. When this method is applied to populations in different wavelengths, it can break the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Gullón , J. A. Pons , J. A. Miralles , D. Viganò , N. Rea , R. Perna

We study the main astrophysical properties of differentially rotating neutron stars described as stationary and axisymmetric configurations of a moderately stiff $\Gamma=2$ polytropic fluid. The high level of accuracy and of stability of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Dorota Gondek-Rosinska , Izabela Kowalska , Loic Villain , Marcus Ansorg , Marcin Kucaba

Current wisdom accounts to the diversity of neutron star observational manifestations to their birth scenarios, influencing their thermal and magnetic field evolution. Among the kind of observed neutron stars, radio pulsars represent by far…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Ludmilla Dirson , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra

The possible signatures of the presence of hyperons inside neutron stars are discussed within a Bayesian inference framework applied to a set of models based on a density-dependent relativistic mean-field description of hadronic matter.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência

Neutron stars are valuable laboratories for the study of dense matter. Recent observations have uncovered both massive and low-mass neutron stars and have also set constraints on neutron star radii. The largest mass measurements are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-16 James M. Lattimer

The double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B is a double neutron star binary, with a 2.4-hour orbital period, which has allowed measurement of relativistic orbital perturbations to high precision. The low mass of the second-formed neutron…

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

Neutron stars are compact and dense celestial objects that offer the unique opportunity to explore matter and its interactions under conditions that cannot be reproduced elsewhere in the Universe. Their extreme gravitational, rotational and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Stefano Ascenzi , Vanessa Graber , Nanda Rea

Aims. Neutron stars (NSs) produced in the Milky Way are supposedly ten to the eighth - ten to the ninth, of which only $\sim 2 \times 10^{3}$ are observed. Constraining the phase space distribution of NSs may help to characterize the yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Sartore , E. Ripamonti , A. Treves , R. Turolla

Measuring the spin of Accreting Neutron Stars is important because it can provide constraints on the Equation of State of ultra-dense matter. Particularly crucial to our physical understanding is the discovery of sub-millisecond pulsars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-28 Alessandro Patruno

Using neural networks, we integrate the ability to account for Doppler smearing due to a pulsar's orbital motion with the pulsar population synthesis package \psrpoppy\ to develop accurate modeling of the observed binary pulsar population.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Nihan Pol , Maura McLaughlin , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathan Garver-Daniels

It is firmly established that the stellar mass distribution is smooth, covering the range 0.1-100 Msun. It is to be expected that the masses of the ensuing compact remnants correlate with the masses of their progenitor stars, and thus it is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Belczynski , G. Wiktorowicz , C. Fryer , D. Holz , V. Kalogera

In the past decades, several neutron stars (NSs), particularly pulsars, with mass $M>2M_\odot$ have been observed. On the other hand, the existence of massive white dwarfs (WDs), even violating Chandrasekhar mass-limit, was inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Mayusree Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay