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We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

We present a physics-informed Bayesian neural-network framework to infer neutron-star equations of state from theoretical priors and to propagate the associated uncertainties to stellar observables. Trained on a large and representative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 J. D. Baker , C. A. Bertulani , R. V. Lobato

Based on the distribution of tidal deformabilities and component masses of binary neutron star merger GW170817, the parametric equation of states (EOS) are employed to probe the nuclear symmetry energy and the properties of neutron star. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-22 Yuxi Li , Houyuan Chen , Dehua Wen , Jing Zhang

The agreement of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) deduced from the GW170817 based tidal deformability with the one obtained from empirical data on microscopic nuclei is examined. It is found that suitably chosen experimental data on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , C. Providência , C. Mondal , T. K. Jha

The stellar compactness, that is, the dimensionless ratio between the mass and radius of a compact star, $\mathcal{C} := M/R$, plays a fundamental role in characterising the gravitational and nuclear-physics aspects of neutron stars. Yet,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Luciano Rezzolla , Christian Ecker

A major science goal of gravitational-wave (GW) observations is to probe the nature of gravity and constrain modifications to General Relativity. An established class of modified gravity theories are scalar-tensor models, which introduce an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Gastón Creci , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

Astrophysical observations from NICER and gravitational wave data constrain the properties of matter at the cores of neutron stars, enabling us to probe high-density matter with greater accuracy. To understand its implications for neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Asim Kumar Saha , Tuhin Malik , Ritam Mallick

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has expanded efforts to understand the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter. These measurements provide new constraints on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-24 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

A central open problem in nuclear physics is the determination of a physically robust equation of state (EoS) for dense nuclear matter, which directly informs our understanding of the internal composition and macroscopic properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 I. Stergakis , Th. Diakonidis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

The EOS of strongly interacting matter at densities ten to fifteen orders of magnitude larger than the typical density of terrestrial macroscopic objects determines a number of neutron star properties, including the pattern of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Benhar

We construct a set of hyperonic equations of state (EoS) by assuming SU(3) symmetry within the baryon octet and by using a covariant density functional (CDF) theory approach. The low-density regions of our EoS are constrained by terrestrial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-06 Han Rui Fu , Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Fridolin Weber

By employing four typical equation of states (EOSs) of the inner crust matters, the constraint on properties of low-mass neutron stars are theoretically investigated. Based on the well known fact that there is a big gap between the neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Yongmei Wen , Dehua Wen

We study an impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter on neutron star properties, including tidal deformability, mass, radius, etc. We present the conditions at which dark matter particles tend to form a compact structure in a core of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-29 V. Sagun , E. Giangrandi , O. Ivanytskyi , I. Lopes , K. A. Bugaev

The strong interactions at low energy scales determine the state of the supranuclear matter in the pulsar-like compact objects. It is proposed that the bulk strong matter could be composed of strangeons, which are quark clusters with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-25 Yong Gao , Xiao-Yu Lai , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu

Precise measurements of neutron star observables (such as mass and radius) allow one to constrain the equations of state for supranuclear matter and develop a stronger understanding of nuclear physics. The Neutron star Interior Composition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Tristen Lowrey , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

One of the most common assumptions has been made that the pressure inside the star is isotropic in nature. However, the pressure is locally anisotropic in nature which is a more realistic case. In this study, we investigate certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-18 H. C. Das

A thorough understanding of many astrophysical phenomena associated with compact objects requires reliable knowledge about both the equation of state (EOS)of super-dense nuclear matter and the theory of strong-field gravity simultaneously…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Weikang Lin , Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , De-Hua Wen , Jun Xu

The general behavior of the nuclear equation of state (EOS), relevant for the description of neutron stars (NS), is studied within a Bayesian approach applied to a set of models based on a density dependent relativistic mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

The recent observation of the pulsar PSR J1614-2230 with a mass of 1.97 +/- 0.04 M_sun gives a strong constraint on the quark and nuclear matter equations of state (EoS). We explore the parameter ranges for a parameterized EoS for quark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-11 Simon Weissenborn , Irina Sagert , Giuseppe Pagliara , Matthias Hempel , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Gravitational wave measurements of binary neutron star coalescences offer information about the properties of the extreme matter that comprises the stars. Despite our expectation that all neutron stars in the Universe obey the same equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Carl-Johan Haster , Aaron Zimmerman