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By identifying quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) reported in FRB 20240114A (from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) with neutron star crustal torsional oscillations, together with experimental constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Hajime Sotani , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Cecilia Chirenti

Geometrical structure of matter at subnuclear densities is investigated in the presence of a degenerate gas of neutrinos as encountered in stellar collapse. The crystalline phases with spherical, cylindrical and planar nuclei as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gentaro Watanabe , Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe. In this paper we consider so-called inner crust - the layer, where neutron-excess nuclei are immersed into degenerate gas of electrons and sea of quasi-free neutrons. It was generally…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Nikita A. Zemlyakov , Andrey I. Chugunov

We study acoustic oscillations (eigenfrequencies, velocity distributions, damping times) of normal crusts of strange stars. These oscillations are very specific because of huge density jump at the interface between the normal crust and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Chugunov

We develop a new method to measure neutron star parameters and derive constraints on the equation of state of dense matter by fitting the frequencies of simultaneous Quasi Periodic Oscillation modes observed in the X-ray flux of accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrea Maselli , George Pappas , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Sara Motta , Valeria Ferrari , Luigi Stella

Gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations can provide new insights into the nature of matter at supra-nuclear densities inside neutron stars. Improvements in electromagnetic and gravitational wave sensing instruments continue to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Shawn Rosofsky , Roman Gold , Cecilia Chirenti , E. A. Huerta , M. Coleman Miller

As the densities in the interior of neutron stars exceed those of terrestrial nuclear experiments, they provide a scope for studying the nature of dense matter under extreme conditions. The composition of the inner core of neutron stars is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee

We investigate marginally stable nuclear burning on the surface of accreting neutron stars as an explanation for the mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed from three low mass X-ray binaries. At the boundary between unstable and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alexander Heger , Andrew Cumming , Stanford E. Woosley

Quantum entanglement offers a unique perspective into the underlying structure of strongly-correlated systems such as atomic nuclei. In this paper, we use quantum information tools to analyze the structure of light and medium-mass…

We study how the frequencies and damping times of oscillations of a newly born, hot proto-neutron star depend on the physical quantities which characterize the star quasi-stationary evolution which follows the bounce. Stellar configurations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. F. Burgio , V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri , H. J. Schulze

The quasiperiodic oscillations found in the three giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters observed to date have been interpreted as crustal oscillations caused by a starquake following a dramatic rearrangement of the stellar magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-13 Gibran H. de Souza , Cecilia Chirenti

To determine the frequencies of magnetic oscillations in neutron stars with highly tangled magnetic fields, we derive the perturbation equations. We assume that the field strength of the global magnetic structure is so small that such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-18 Hajime Sotani

With various sets of the parameters that characterize the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter, we systematically examine the thickness of a neutron star crust and of the pasta phases contained therein. Then, with respect to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Hajime Sotani , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

We study the structural and dynamical consequences of introducing a distributional density profile inside a neutron star, representing a massless, topological shell located at an arbitrary radius. We incorporate this effect into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Debojoti Kuzur , Kamal Krishna Nath

We systematically examine the crustal torsional oscillations as varying the stellar mass and radius, where we take into account the effect of electron screening due to the inhomogeneity of electron distribution. In the examinations, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Hajime Sotani

I construct a model of the inner crust of neutron stars using interactions from chiral effective field theory (EFT) in order to calculate its equation of state (EOS), shear properties, and the spectrum of crustal shear modes. I…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-19 Ingo Tews

We show that the fundamental seismic shear mode, observed as a quasi-periodic oscillation in giant flares emitted by highly-magnetized neutron stars, is particularly sensitive to the nuclear physics of the crust. The identification of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-29 Andrew W. Steiner , Anna L. Watts

The bubble nuclei are important components of exotic nuclear structures characterized by special depletions of central densities. Focusing on bubble structures of $^{36}$Ar, the characterizations of bubble nuclei were explored with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-27 Ge Ren , Chun-Wang Ma , Xi-Guang Cao , Yu-Gang Ma

Mature neutron stars are thought to be sufficiently cold that nuclei in the outer layers freeze, solidifying a crust. Crustal elasticity allows the star to support a set of seismic modes, such as torsional oscillations. These axial-parity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-18 Hajime Sotani , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We present several exact solutions of the eigenfrequency problem for torsional shear vibrations in homogeneous and non-homogeneous models of the neutron star crust governed by canonical equation of solid mechanics with a restoring force of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. I. Bastrukov , H. -K. Chang , J. Takata , G. -T. Chen , I. V. Molodtsova