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A thorough understanding of properties of neutron stars requires both a reliable knowledge of the equation of state (EOS) of super-dense nuclear matter and the strong-field gravity theories simultaneously. To provide information that may…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-21 Xiao-Tao He , F. J. Fattoyev , Bao-An Li , W. G. Newton

The historic observations of the neutron star merger GW170817 advanced our understanding of r-process nucleosynthesis and the equation of state (EOS) of neutron rich matter. Simple neutrino physics suggests that supernovae are not the site…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-04 C. J. Horowitz

We investigate the role of hybrid and nucleonic equations of state (EOSs) within neutron star (NS) interiors using Bayesian inference to evaluate their alignment with recent observational data from NICER and LIGO-Virgo (LV) collaborations.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Debanjan Guha Roy , Anagh Venneti , Tuhin Malik , Swastik Bhattacharya , Sarmistha Banik

Much effort is devoted to measuring the nuclear symmetry energy through neutron star (NS) and nuclear observables. Since matter in the NS core may be non-hadronic, observables like radii and tidal deformability may not provide reliable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Duncan Neill , Rebecca Preston , William G. Newton , David Tsang

Twin stars-two stable neutron stars (NSs) with the same mass but different radii have long been proposed to appear as a consequence of a possible first-order phase transition in NS matter. Within a meta-model for the EOS of hybrid stars, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-13 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

Neutron stars (NS) are compact objects with strong gravitational fields, and a matter composition subject to extreme physical conditions. The properties of strongly interacting matter at ultra-high densities and temperatures impose a big…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 R. V. Lobato , E. V. Chimanski , C. A. Bertulani

Gravitational-wave measurements of the tidal deformability in neutron-star binary coalescences can be used to infer the still unknown equation of state (EoS) of dense matter above the nuclear saturation density. By employing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Costantino Pacilio , Andrea Maselli , Margherita Fasano , Paolo Pani

Neutron star is the ultimate testing place for the physics of dense nuclear matter. Before the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, various nuclear equations of state have been used to estimate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Young-Min Kim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Hana Gil , Chang-Hwan Lee

Nuclear reactions may affect gravitational-wave signals from neutron-star mergers, but the impact is uncertain. In order to quantify the effect, we compare two numerical simulations representing intuitive extremes. In one case reactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Peter Hammond , Ian Hawke , Nils Andersson

Neutron stars (NSs) are extraordinary not only because they are the densest form of matter in the visible Universe but also because they can generate B-fields ten orders of magnitude larger than those currently constructed on Earth. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Antonios Tsokaros

Properties of effective interactions in neutron-rich matter are reflected in the medium's equation of state (EOS), which is a relationship among several state variables. Spin and isospin asymmetries play an important role in the energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-10-03 Plamen G. Krastev , Francesca Sammarruca , Bao-An Li , Aaron Worley

Neutron stars (NSs) are excellent natural laboratories to constrain gravity on strong field regime and nuclear matter in extreme conditions. Motivated by the recent discovery of a compact object with $2.59^{+0.08}_{-0.09} M_\odot$ in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-07 Rafael C. Nunes , Jaziel G. Coelho , José C. N. de Araujo

If dark matter (DM) accumulates inside neutron stars (NS), it changes their internal structure and causes a shift of the tidal deformability from the value predicted by the dense-matter equation of state (EOS). In principle, this shift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-25 Hauke Koehn , Edoardo Giangrandi , Nina Kunert , Rahul Somasundaram , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

The first combined detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in August 2017 (event named GW170817) represents a major landmark for the ongoing investigation on these extraordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-07 Riccardo Ciolfi

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter plays an important role in the supernova phenomenon, the structure of neutron stars, and in the mergers of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes). During the collapse phase of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 James M. Lattimer , Madappa Prakash

Neutron stars are commonly considered as astronomical objects having highdensity interiors and an inner core region in which various hadronic matter phases are expected. Several studies show that the inner structures affect macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Tomoki Endo

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available. To constrain the…

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has intensified efforts towards the understanding of the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. In this letter, we compare…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-18 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

We have conducted an extensive study using a diverse set of equations of state (EoSs) to uncover strong relationships between neutron star (NS) observables and the underlying EoS parameters using symbolic regression method. These EoS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 N. K. Patra , Tuhin Malik , Helena Pais , Kai Zhou , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating a finite-temperature (Shen's) equation of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling for the first time. It is found that for this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-22 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata