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Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

Motivated by the recent detection of the gravitational wave signal emitted by a binary neutron star merger, we analyse the possible impact of dark matter on such signals. We show that dark matter cores in merging neutron stars may yield an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 John Ellis , Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen

Matter state inside neutron stars is an exciting problem in astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics. The equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars plays a crucial role in the present multimessenger astronomy, especially after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-07 Zhen-Yu Zhu , En-Ping Zhou , Ang Li

We confront observational data from gravitational wave event GW170817 with microscopic modeling of the cold neutron star equation of state. We develop and employ a Bayesian statistical framework that enables us to implement constraints on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Yeunhwan Lim , Jeremy W. Holt

Recent developments in the theory of pure neutron matter and experiments concerning the symmetry energy of nuclear matter, coupled with recent measurements of high-mass neutron stars, now allow for relatively tight constraints on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 James M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

A review of properties of matter in the interior of neutron stars is given. Particular attention is paid to recent many-body theory calculations of the properties of dense matter. Among topics discussed are the strong increase of tensor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Pethick , A. Akmal , V. R. Pandharipande , D. G. Ravenhall

Motivated by the historical detection of gravitational waves from GW170817, the neutron star and the neutron drop, i.e., a certain number of neutrons confined in an external field, are systematically investigated by ab initio calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Hui Tong , Peng-Wei Zhao , Jie Meng

Observations of the high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the hot and massive remnant of a binary neutron star merger will provide new probes of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). We show that current uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

Compact astrophysical objects, such as neutron stars, can provide a unique environment where the interplay between strongly interacting nuclear matter and dark matter (DM) can yield possible observable signatures. We investigate here the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Deepak Kumar , Ranjita K. Mohapatra , Hiranmaya Mishra , Sudhanwa Patra

The existence of quark matter inside the cores of heavy neutron stars is a possibility which can be probed with modern astrophysical observations. We use an (axial)vector meson extended quark-meson model to describe quark matter in the core…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Péter Kovács , János Takátsy , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich , György Wolf

In the framework of relativistic mean field theory, the relativistic neutrino emissivity of the nucleonic and hyperonic direct Urca processes in the degenerate baryon matter of neutron stars are studied. We investigate particularly the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Xiu-Lin Huang , Hai-Jun Wang , Guang-Zhou Liu , Yan Xu

We model neutron star cooling with several microscopic nuclear equations of state based on different nucleon-nucleon interactions and three-body forces, and compatible with the recent GW170817 neutron star merger event. They all feature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-16 J. -B. Wei , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

In 2017, LIGO-Virgo collaborations reported detection of the first neutron star merger event, GW170817, which is accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts from radio to gamma rays. Although high-energy neutrinos were not detected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Shigeo S. Kimura

We study the effects of isovector-scalar ($\delta$)-meson on neutron star. Influence of $\delta$-meson on both static and rotating neutron star is discussed. Inclusion of $\delta$-meson in a neutron star system consisting of proton, neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-01 S. K. Biswal , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Patra

With the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary system of neutron stars, GW170817, a new window was opened to study the properties of matter at and above nuclear-saturation density. Reaching densities a few times that of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-01 Lukas R. Weih , Matthias Hanauske , Luciano Rezzolla

The discovery of GW170817, the merger of a binary neutron star (NS) triggered by a gravitational wave detection by LIGO and Virgo, has opened a new window of exploration in the physics of NSs and their cosmological role. Among the important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter in neutron stars (NSs) remains uncertain, particularly at supra-nuclear densities where complex nuclear interactions and the potential presence of exotic matter, like hyperons, come into play. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 N. K. Patra , Tuhin Malik , Kai Zhou , Constança Providência

The properties of a neutron star are studied in the presence of dark matter. We have considered a relatively light Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) as a dark matter candidate with properties suggested by the results of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Abdul Quddus , Grigorios Panotopoulos , Bharat Kumar , Shakeb Ahmad , S. K. Patra

The discovery of the compact binary coalescence in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation marks a breakthrough in the field of multi-messenger astronomy and has improved our knowledge in a number of research areas. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-15 Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich

Neutron stars are the densest objects known in our visible universe. Properties of matter inside a neutron star are encoded in its equation of state, which has wide-ranging uncertainty from a theoretical perspective. With the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Bhaskar Biswas