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We study low-amplitude crustal oscillations of slowly rotating relativistic stars consisting of a central fluid core and an outer thin solid crust. We estimate the effect of rotation on the torsional toroidal modes and on the interfacial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Vavoulidis , K. D. Kokkotas , A. Stavridis

We show that the shear modes in the neutron star crust are quite sensitive to the existence of nonuniform nuclear structures, so-called "pasta". Due to the existence of pasta phase, the frequencies of shear modes are reduced, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Hajime Sotani

We show that the widely used parabolic approximation to the Equation of State (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter leads systematically to significantly higher core-crust transition densities and pressures. Using an EOS for neutron-rich…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li , Hong-Ru Ma , Jun Xu

To model the structure of neutron stars (NSs) theoretically,it is common to consider layers with different density regimes. Matching the equation of state (EoS) for the crust and core and obtaining a suitable description of these extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 Martin O. Canullan-Pascual , Mauro Mariani , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval , Milva G. Orsaria , Fridolin Weber

Oscillation modes of compact stars, in general, can serve as a fingerprint in determining the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter. In this study, we examine the impact of symmetry energy slope ($L$) on the oscillation frequencies of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-25 Bin Hong , ZhongZhou Ren , Chen Wu , XueLing Mu

We systematically examine the fundamental frequencies of shear torsional oscillations in neutron star crusts in a manner that is dependent on the parameter $L$ characterizing the poorly known density dependence of the symmetry energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-27 Hajime Sotani , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

Many recent observations give restrictions to the equation of state (EOS) for high-density matter. Theoretical studies are needed to try to elucidate these EOSs at high density and/or temperature. With the many known rapidly rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Tomoki Endo

We study the impact of plasma correlation effects on nonresonant thermonuclear reactions for various stellar objects, namely in the liquid envelopes of neutron stars, and the interiors of white dwarfs, low-mass stars, and substellar…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-14 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier

We present the formalism and numerical results for torsional oscillations of relativistic stars endowed with a strong dipole magnetic field. We do a systematic search of parameter space by computing torsional mode frequencies for various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Sotani , K. D. Kokkotas , N. Stergioulas

The strong interaction at low energy scales determines the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear matters in neutron stars (NSs). It is conjectured that the bulk dense matter may be composed of strangeons, which are quark clusters with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-06 Hong-Bo Li , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu , Rui Xu

The wide range of nuclear densities achieved in neutron stars makes them probes of dense nuclear behavior in the form of the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Studying neutron stars both in isolation, with X-ray measurements and pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Atul Kedia , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Leslie Wade , Anjali Yelikar

Previously, observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer showed that millisecond oscillations occur preferentially in thermonuclear X-ray bursts with photospheric radius expansion from sources rotating near 600 Hz, while they occur…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael P. Muno , Duncan K. Galloway , Deepto Chakrabarty , ;

The neutron star crustal EoS and transition point properties are computed within a unified meta-modeling approach. A Bayesian approach is employed including two types of filters: bulk nuclear properties are controlled from low density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Thomas Carreau , Francesca Gulminelli , Jérôme Margueron

We systematically study the tidal deformability for neutron and hyperon stars using relativistic mean field (RMF) equations of state (EOSs). The tidal effect plays an important role during the early part of the evolution of compact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , S. K. Patra

Core-collapse simulations of massive stars are performed using the equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic variational calculation with realistic nuclear forces. The progenitor models with the initial masses of $15M_\odot$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Togashi

We investigate how higher-order symmetry-energy coefficients of the equation of state (EOS) describing $npe\mu$ core matter impact key neutron star (NS) properties at its crust inner edge, its moment of inertia and corresponding crustal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 W. M. Seif , A. S. Hashem

Accurate modeling of the neutron star crust is essential for interpreting multimessenger observations and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EoS). However, standard phenomenological EoS models often rely on heuristic extrapolations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 S. Burrello , F. Gulminelli , M. Antonelli , M. Colonna , A. Fantina

We study numerically the effect of varying the equation of state (EOS) on the formation of stellar clusters in turbulent molecular clouds. Our results show that the EOS plays an important role in the fragmentation of the clouds, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuexing Li , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The main contribution to the effective shear modulus of neutron star crust can be calculated within Coulomb solid model and can be approximated by simple analytical expression for arbitrary (even multicomponent) composition. Here I consider…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Andrey I. Chugunov

By using an average heavy nuclei model, the effects of the electron screening on electron capture (EC) in core-collapse supernovae are investigated. A one-dimension code based on the Ws15$M_{\sun}$ progenitor model is utilized to test the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-13 Men-Quan Liu , Ye-Fei Yuan , Jie Zhang