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In recent years our understanding of the dense matter equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars has significantly improved by analyzing multimessenger data from radio/X-ray pulsars, gravitational wave events, and from nuclear physics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 G. Raaijmakers , S. K. Greif , K. Hebeler , T. Hinderer , S. Nissanke , A. Schwenk , T. E. Riley , A. L. Watts , J. M. Lattimer , W. C. G. Ho

Determining the sound speed $c_s$ in compact stars is an important open question with numerous implications on the behaviour of matter at large densities and hence on gravitational-wave emission from neutron stars. To this scope, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Sinan Altiparmak , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla

The masses and radii of neutron stars are discussed in general relativity and scalar-tensor theory of gravity and the differences are compared with the current uncertainties stemming from the nuclear equation of state in the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 F. J. Fattoyev

We adopt two- and three-body nuclear forces derived at the next-to-next-to-leading-order (N2LO) in the framework of effective chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) to calculate the equation of state (EOS) of $\beta$-stable neutron star matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Domenico Logoteta , Ignazio Bombaci

Observations of heavy (${\simeq}2\,M_\odot$) neutron stars in addition to the recent measurement of tidal deformability from the binary neutron-star merger GW170817, place interesting constraints on theories of dense matter. Current and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 M. Sieniawska , M. Bejger , B. Haskell

Driven by recent laboratory experiments and astronomical observations, significant advances have deepened our understanding of neutron-star physics. NICER's Pulse Profile Modeling has refined our knowledge of neutron star masses and radii,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Marc Salinas , Jorge Piekarewicz

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

We show that microscopic calculations based on chiral effective field theory interactions constrain the properties of neutron-rich matter below nuclear densities to a much higher degree than is reflected in commonly used equations of state.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 K. Hebeler , J. M. Lattimer , C. J. Pethick , A. Schwenk

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 study how the $\Lambda$ hyperon threshold influences the radius of the canonical $1.4 ~M_\odot$ neutron star in the light of the measurements found in the recent literature. We show that the onset of a new degree of freedom not only…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Luiz L. Lopes , Debora P. Menezes

We study the structure of neutron stars in R+\beta\ R^{\mu \nu} R_{\mu \nu} gravity model with perturbative method. We obtain mass--radius relations for six representative equations of state (EoSs). We find that, for |\beta| ~ 10^11 cm^2,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Cemsinan Deliduman , K. Y. Ekşi , Vildan Keleş

Instead of parameterizing the pressure-density relation of a neutron star (NS), one can parameterize its macroscopic properties such as mass ($M$), radius ($R$), and dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) to infer the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Bhaskar Biswas , Sayak Datta

The maximal gravitational mass of nonrotating neutron stars ($M_{\rm TOV}$) is one of the key parameters of compact objects and only loose bounds can be set based on the first principle. With reliable measurements of the masses and/or radii…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Yi-Zhong Fan , Ming-Zhe Han , Jin-Liang Jiang , Dong-Sheng Shao , Shao-Peng Tang

We calculate properties of neutron stars such as mass and radius using a relativistic Dirac-Brueckner-hartree-Fock apprach for asymmetric nuclear matter. For pure neutron matter we find the maximum mass to be 2.4 solar masses with a radius…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Engvik , M. Hjorth-Jensen , E. Osnes , G. Bao , E. Oestgaard

We discuss the relativistic nuclear equation of state (EOS) using a relativistic transport model in heavy-ion collisions. From the baryon flow for $Au + Au$ systems at SIS to AGS energies and above we find that the strength of the vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 P. K. Sahu

Using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) for the core of neutron stars (NSs) within the Bayesian statistical approach, we infer the EOS parameters of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter from three sets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-07 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

We investigate the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) by incorporating multi-messenger data of GW170817, PSR J0030+0451, PSR J0740+6620, and state-of-the-art theoretical progresses, including the information from chiral effective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-23 Ming-Zhe Han , Yong-Jia Huang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yi-Zhong Fan

The nucleon effective mass, binding energy and neutron star configuration in the Relativistic Mean-Field Theory (RMF) is considered. The calculation are motivated by the construction of the equation of state for a neutron star in the RMF.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Ryszard Manka , Ilona Bednarek , Grzegorz Przybyla

Latest general relativistic simulations for merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state (EOSs) show that a hypermassive neutron star of an ellipsoidal figure is formed after the merger if the total mass is smaller than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata

The existence of high mass ($\sim 2M_{\odot}$) pulsars PSR J1614-2230 and PSR J0348-0432 requires the compact star matter to be described by a stiff equation of state (EoS). Presence of hyperons in neutron stars leads to a softening of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Hovik Grigorian , Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev , Konstantin A. Maslov , Dmitry N. Voskresensky