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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

Binary neutron star mergers provide a unique laboratory for studying matter under conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial experiments. They probe dense matter at supranuclear density, finite temperature, rapid rotation, strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Armen Sedrakian

We show how gravitational-wave observations with advanced detectors of tens to several tens of neutron-star binaries can measure the neutron-star radius with an accuracy of several to a few percent, for mass and spatial distributions that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 Sukanta Bose , Kabir Chakravarti , Luciano Rezzolla , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Kentaro Takami

We investigate constraints on neutron star structure arising from the assumptions that neutron stars have crusts, that recent calculations of pure neutron matter limit the equation of state of neutron star matter near the nuclear saturation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 A. W. Steiner , J. M. Lattimer , E. F. Brown

Neutron stars are the densest objects known in the Universe. Being the final product of stellar evolution, their internal composition and structure is rather poorly constrained by measurements. It is the purpose of this paper to put some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Petri

The existence of 2 Msun pulsars puts very strong constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) with hyperon cores, which can be satisfied only by special models of hadronic matter. The radius-mass relation for these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 M. Fortin , J. L. Zdunik , P. Haensel , M. Bejger

Rotation-powered "recycled" millisecond pulsars are a variety of rapidly-spinning neutron stars that typically show thermal X-ray radiation due to the heated surface of their magnetic polar caps. Detailed numerical modeling of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Slavko Bogdanov

Theoretical models of the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-star matter (starting with the crust and ending at the densest region of the stellar core) are reviewed. Apart from a broad set of baryonic EOSs, strange quark matter, and even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Haensel

Nuclear mass measurements and neutron matter theory tightly constrain the nuclear symmetry energy parameters $J$, $L$, $K_{sym}$ and $Q_{sym}$. Corroboration of these constraints on $J$ and $L$ can be found from measurements of the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 James M. Lattimer

A novel equation of state used for analysis of the heavy ion collision experimental data is generalized to also describe the matter inside neutron stars. This approach differs from others by including an induced surface tension caused by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 V. Sagun , I. Lopes , A. Ivanytskyi

We report on observations of the neutron star (NS) residing in the low-mass X-ray binary 1RXS J180408.9-34205 taken 2015 March by $\emph{NuSTAR}$ and $\emph{XMM-Newton}$ while the source was in the hard spectral state. We find multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 R. M. Ludlam , J. M. Miller , E. M. Cackett , A. C. Fabian , M. Bachetti , M. L. Parker , J. A. Tomsick , D. Barret , L. Natalucci , V. Rana , F. A. Harrison

We try to constraints some of the nuclear matter parameters such as symmetry energy ($J$) and its slope ($L$) from the recent inferred data of the PREX-2. Other nuclear matter parameters are adopted from {\bf [Phys. Rev. C 85 035201 (2012),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 S. K. Biswal , H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , S. K. Patra

We discuss recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the bright isolated neutron star RX J1856.5-3754 and suggest that the absence of any line features is due to effects of a high magnetic field strength (~10^13 G). Using different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Truemper , V. Burwitz , F. Haberl , V. E. Zavlin

The inner structure of neutron star is considered from theoretical point of view and is compared with the observed data. We have proposed a form of an equation of state relating pressure with matter density which indicates the stiff…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-26 Mehedi Kalam , Sk. Monowar Hossein , Sajahan Molla

The recent NICER observation of PSR J0614-3329, revealing the smallest reliably measured neutron star radius of $R = 10.29^{+1.01}_{-0.86}$ km at mass $M = 1.44^{+0.06}_{-0.07} M_\odot$, provides an unprecedented constraint on the equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Bikai Gao , Yuk-Kei Kong , Yong-Liang Ma

The outstanding capabilities of the Chandra X-ray observatory have greatly increased our potential to observe and analyze thermal radiation from the surfaces of neutron stars (NSs). Such observations allow one to measure the surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Pavlov , V. E. Zavlin , D. Sanwal

In this work, we discuss the dense matter equation of state (EOS) for the extreme range of conditions encountered in neutron stars and their mergers. The calculation of the properties of such an EOS involves modeling different degrees of…

We address the question of the role of low-energy nuclear physics data in constraining neutron star global properties, e.g., masses, radii, angular momentum, and tidal deformability, in the absence of a phase transition in dense matter. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Brett V. Carlson , Mariana Dutra , Odilon Lourenço , Jérôme Margueron

The radius of neutron stars can in principle be measured via the normalisation of a blackbody fitted to the X-ray spectrum during thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray bursts, although few previous studies have addressed the reliability of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Duncan K. Galloway , Nathanael Lampe

In this letter, we present a new, weakly model-dependent, test for ``standard" equations of state (EoS) models that disfavor sharp and strong phase-transitions, by using neutron star mass and radius observations. We show the radii of two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-24 Zidu Lin , Andrew Steiner