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The existence of possible massive white dwarfs more than the Chandrasekhar limit ($1.45M_{\odot }$, in which $M_{\odot }$ is mass of the sun) is a challenging topic. In this regard and motivated by the important effect of massive graviton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 B. Eslam Panah , H. L. Liu

The Schwarzschild interior solution, when combined with the assumption of a finite central pressure, leads to the well-known Buchdahl bound. This bound establishes an upper limit on the mass-to-radius ratio of an object, which is equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Christian G. Boehmer , Naresh Dadhich , Surajit Das

We focus on dRGT massive gravity in spherical symmetry in the limit of small graviton mass. Firstly we examine the minimal model. This does not exhibit a Vainshtein mechanism in spherical symmetry, but one may still ask what happens for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-30 Emma Albertini , Jan Kożuszek , Toby Wiseman

We systematically study the most general Lorentz-violating graviton mass invariant under three-dimensional Eucledian group using the explicitly covariant language. We find that at general values of mass parameters the massive graviton has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. L. Dubovsky

We give a simple derivation of a cosmological bound on the graviton mass for spatially flat FRW solutions in massive gravity with an FRW reference metric and for bigravity theories. This bound comes from the requirement that the kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Matteo Fasiello , Andrew J. Tolley

The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is a remarkable astrophysical event where all four fundamental forces interplay dynamically across multiple stages, producing a rich spectrum of multi-messenger signals. These observations present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 S. K. Maurya , A. Errehymy , Ksh. Newton Singh , G. Mustafa , Saibal Ray

We study slowly-rotating neutron stars in ghost-free massive bigravity. This theory modifies General Relativity by introducing a second, auxiliary but dynamical tensor field that couples to matter through the physical metric tensor through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolas Yunes

The mass of compact objects in General Relativity (GR), which as is well known, is obtained via the Tolman - Oppenheimer - Volkov (TOV) equations, is a well defined quantity. However, in alternative gravity, this is not in general the case.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 José Carlos Neves de Araujo , Hemily Gomes Marciano Fortes

Apparent (radiation) radius of neutron star,R_\infty, depends on the star gravitational mass in quite a different way than the standard coordinate radius in the Schwarzschild metric, R. We show that, for a broad set of equations of state of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Haensel

It is noteworthy that limiting compactness of a static bounded configuration is characterized by a general principle: \textit{one, by equipartition of mass between inside and outside, and the other by vanishing of energy inside.} The former…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Naresh Dadhich

The main aim of this paper is to obtain a completely new relativistic non-singular model for static, spherically symmetric isotropic celestial compact stars in the $f(R, T)$ gravity scenario. In this regard, we have considered the isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Nayan Sarkar , Susmita Sarkar , Banashree Sen Moumita Sarkar , Farook Rahaman

Theoretical considerations of fundamental physics, as well as certain cosmological observations, persistently point out to permissibility, and maybe necessity, of macroscopic modifications of the Einstein general relativity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Stanislav V. Babak , L. P. Grishchuk

As massive gravity and its extensions offer physically well-defined gravitational theories with a nonzero graviton mass, we present a new extension of the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT)massive gravity, which is tachyonic massive gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , Sobhan Kazempour , Lijing Shao

Within the framework of $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$ gravity, we study realistic models of neutron stars, using equations of state compatible with the LIGO constraints. i.e. APR4, MPA1, SLy, and WW1. By numerically solving modified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Pasquale Feola , Xisco Jimenez Forteza , Salvatore Capozziello , Roberto Cianci , Stefano Vignolo

In this paper, analytical solutions describing static and spherically symmetric sources in the decoupling limit of massive gravity are derived. We analyze the model parameter range and specify when a Vainshtein mechanism is possible.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-28 Stefan Sjors , Edvard Mortsell

Within the framework of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in five-dimensional spacetime ($5D$ EGB), we derive the hydrostatic equilibrium equations and solve them numerically to obtain neutron stars for both isotropic and anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 Juan M. Z. Pretel , Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan

We prove a no-go theorem for the mass-radius relation of localized and stable field configurations, known as solitons. Defining the mass-radius index by $\Gamma \equiv \frac{{\rm{d}}\ln M}{{\rm{d}}\ln R}$, for real scalar field theories in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Mohammad Hossein Namjoo

We study spherically symmetric solutions in a covariant massive gravity model, which is a candidate for a ghost-free non-linear completion of the Fierz-Pauli theory. There is a branch of solutions that exhibits the Vainshtein mechanism,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-04 Kazuya Koyama , Gustavo Niz , Gianmassimo Tasinato

This paper presents a study on gravitational vacuum stars (gravastars) with an isotropic matter distribution in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity incorporating Buchdahl metric function. Here we have conducted an analysis on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-16 Meghanil Sinha , S. Surendra Singh

It is noticed that the total relative density of mass in the Universe Omega_tot should exceed 1, i.e. Omega_tot=1+f^2/6 according to the field relativistic theory of gravity (RTG), which is free of the cosmological singularity and which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. S. Gershtein , A. A. Logunov , M. A. Mestvirishvili