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The current work investigates the structural properties of neutron stars in the presence of a strong magnetic field within the framework of f(R,T) modified gravity, where the matter-geometry coupling leads to deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Charul Rathod , M. Mishra , Prasanta Kumar Das

The bulk properties of spherically symmetric stars in general relativity can be obtained by integrating the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations. In previous work we developed a "post-TOV" formalism - inspired by parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas , Hector O. Silva , Emanuele Berti

The secondary component of GW190814 has mass in the range $2.5$--$2.67{\rm M}_\odot$, placing it within the lower mass gap separating neutron stars from black holes. According to the predictions of general relativity and state-of-the-art…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Christopher Reyes , Jeremy Sakstein

We study relativistic stars in the simplest model of the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley massive gravity which describes the massive graviton without ghost propagating mode. We consider the hydrostatic equilibrium, and obtain the modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-15 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Masashi Yamazaki

For the accurate understanding of compact objects such as neutron stars and strange stars, the Tolmann-Openheimer-Volkof (TOV) equation has proved to be of great use. Hence, in this work, we obtain the TOV equation for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-07 G. A. Carvalho , S. I. dos Santos, , P. H. R. S. Moraes , M. Malheiro

We formulate the generalized Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for the $f(\hat{R})$ Palatini gravity in the case of static and spherical symmetric geometry. We also show that a neutron star is a stable system independently of the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-31 Aneta Wojnar

In the present work, we obtain the hydrostatic equilibrium configurations of neutron stars in the recently proposed $f(R,\mathcal{L},T)$ theory of gravity, for which $R$ is the Ricci scalar, $\mathcal{L}$ is the matter lagrangian density,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-26 J. A. S. Fortunato , P. H. R. S. Moraes , E. Brito , J. G. de Lima Júnior , T. S. Guerini

Compact stars have long served as a test bed of gravitational models and their coupling with stellar matter. In this work, we explore the behavior of an exponential model in f(T) gravity through the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Gabriel Farrugia , Carlos Gafa' , Jackson Levi Said

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

This study investigates the modeling of anisotropic magnetized static neutron stars within the framework of five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (5D EGB) gravity. While Einstein's gravity has traditionally been employed to examine neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Mohammad Mazhari

We present interesting aspects of neutron stars (NSs) from the standpoint of a modified theory of gravity called Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity. A deviation from general relativity (GR) in HL gravity can change typical features of the NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Kyungmin Kim , John J. Oh , Chan Park , Edwin J. Son

We consider the cosmological implications of a four-dimensional extension of the Gauss-Bonnet $f(G)$ gravity, where $G$ is the Gauss-Bonnet topological invariant, in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is replaced by an arbitrary function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Ratul Mandal , Himanshu Chaudhary , Tiberiu Harko , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

In this work, we investigate the existence of neutron stars (NS) in the framework of $f$($\mathbb{T}$,$\mathcal{T}$) gravity, where $\mathbb{T}$ is the torsion tensor and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Clésio E. Mota , Luis C. N. Santos , Franciele M. da Silva , Cesar V. Flores , Iarley P. Lobo , Valdir B. Bezerra

In this paper, we consider a spherical symmetric metric to extract the hydrostatic equilibrium equation of stars in $(3+1)-$dimensional gravity's rainbow in the presence of cosmological constant. Then, we generalize the hydrostatic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-19 S. H. Hendi , G. H. Bordbar , B. Eslam Panah , S. Panahiyan

We consider the cosmology where some function f(G) of the Gauss-Bonnet term G is added to the gravitational action to account for the late-time accelerating expansion of the universe. The covariant and gauge invariant perturbation equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Baojiu Li , John D. Barrow , David F. Mota

We give the first general construction of solutions of the static spherically symmetric Einstein-Euler equations, the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV-)equation, with prescribed density functions allowed to be discontinuous and non-uniform;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Moritz Reintjes , Ruochen Xia

Stars are essentially gravitationally stabilised thermonuclear reactors in hydrostatic equilibrium. The fundamental differential equation for all Newtonian gaseous stars in equilibrium is \begin{align}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Steven D Miller

This paper is devoted to investigate the recently proposed modified Gauss-Bonnet $f(\mathcal{G},T)$ gravity, with $\mathcal{G}$, the Gauss-Bonnet term, coupled with ${T}$, the trace of energy-momentum tensor. We have used the Noether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-12 M. Farasat Shamir , Mushtaq Ahmad

Following an earlier analysis which examined the effect of the self-gravity of pressure on big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), we explore the effect of pressure's self-gravity on the structure of neutron stars. We construct an ad hoc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-05 Josiah Schwab , Scott A. Hughes , Saul Rappaport

General Relativity (GR) is not the only way gravity can be geometrised. Instead of curvature, the Teleparallel Theory attributes gravity to torsion $T$, which is related to the antysimmetric part of connection, and the Symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 J. C. N de Araujo , H. G. M. Fortes