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An ambitious goal of the astrophysical community is not only to constrain the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter by confronting it with astrophysics observations, but ultimately also to infer the NS composition.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

We investigate properties of nuclear matter, equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars and its mass-radius relation in a hard-wall AdS/QCD model by regarding baryons as solitonic configurations in gauge fields. Compared with previous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Jun-Shuai Wang , Li-Kang Yang , Yin-Fang Liu , Yong-Liang Ma

The Equation of State (EOS) of matter within neutron stars is a central topic in nuclear physics and astrophysics.This study investigates hadron-quark hybrid stars by integrating the density-dependent DDME2 relativistic mean-field model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-20 Chunran Zhu , Bolin Li

The dynamics in mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) systems depend sensitively on the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter. This has profound implications on the emission of gravitational waves (GWs) and the ejection of matter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Maximilian Jacobi , Federico Maria Guercilena , Sabrina Huth , Giacomo Ricigliano , Almudena Arcones , Achim Schwenk

We study the equation of state of neutron matter at finite temperature based on two- and three-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. The free energy, pressure, entropy,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 J. Keller , C. Wellenhofer , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter has been a long-sought goal of nuclear physics. Equations of state generate unique mass versus radius (M-R) relations for neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of stellar evolution. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrew W. Steiner , James M. Lattimer , Edward F. Brown

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

Recent observations of neutron stars with gravitational waves and X-ray timing provide unprecedented access to the equation of state (EoS) of cold dense matter at densities difficult to realize in terrestrial experiments. At the same time,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-10 Reed Essick , Ingo Tews , Philippe Landry , Sanjay Reddy , Daniel E. Holz

We introduce a parameterized high-density equation of state (EOS) in order to systematize the study of constraints placed by astrophysical observations on the nature of neutron-star matter. To obtain useful constraints, the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Jocelyn S. Read , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin J. Owen , John L. Friedman

Neutron matter is an ideal laboratory for nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory since all contributions are predicted up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in the chiral expansion. By making use of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-12 C. Drischler , A. Carbone , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

At present, the only experimental access to the properties of cold, dense strongly interacting matter is provided by astrophysical observations. Neutron stars are the only known systems in the Universe that reach densities several times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Gábor Kasza , János Takátsy , György Wolf

Recent observations from NICER in X-rays and LIGO/Virgo in gravitational waves have provided critical constraints on the mass, radius, and tidal deformability of neutron stars, imposing stringent limits on the equation of state (EOS) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 R. Moradi , Y. Wang , F. Rastegarnia , E. S. Yorgancioglu , Shu-Xu Yi , B. Eslam Panah , S. N. Zhang

The existence of neutron stars with $2M_\odot$ requires the strong stiffness of the equation of state (EoS) of neutron-star matter. We introduce a multi-pomeron exchange potential (MPP) working universally among 3- and 4-baryons to stiffen…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Y. Yamamoto , H. Togashi , T. Tamagawa , T. Furumoto , N. Yasutake , Th. A. Rijken

The Equation of State (EoS) of dense matter represents a central issue in the study of compact astrophysical objects and heavy ion reactions at intermediate and relativistic energies. We have derived a nuclear EoS with nucleons and hyperons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fiorella Burgio

Core-collapse simulations of massive stars are performed using the equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic variational calculation with realistic nuclear forces. The progenitor models with the initial masses of $15M_\odot$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Togashi

The compact object with a mass of $2.50-2.67~M_\odot$ observed by LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations in GW190814, as well as the recent report of a light compact object with a mass and radius of $M=0.77^{+0.20}_{-0.17}M_{\odot}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu

The structure of neutron stars is determined by the equation of state of the matter inside the star, which relies on the knowledge of nuclear interactions. While radii of neutron stars mostly depend on the equation of state of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-20 Stefano Gandolfi , Diego Lonardoni

The equation of state (EoS) for cold dense matter inside neutron stars is investigated by using holographic QCD models in the framework of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) system and the improved Karch-Katz-Son-Stephanov (KKSS) action for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Lin Zhang , Mei Huang

The properties of hybrid stars formed by hadronic and quark matter in beta-equilibrium at fixed entropies are described by appropriate equations of state (EOS) in the framework of relativistic mean-field theory. In this work we include the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 D. P. Menezes , C. Providencia

A new scheme for testing the nuclear matter (NM) equation of state (EoS) at high densities using constraints from compact star (CS) phenomenology is applied to neutron stars with a core of deconfined quark matter (QM). An acceptable EoS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , T. Klahn