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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…

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We derive an equation of state for magnetized charge neutral nuclear matter relevant for neutron star structure. The calculations are performed within an effective chiral model based on generalization of sigma model with nonlinear self…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-16 Tuhin Malik , Debashree Sen , T. K. Jha , Hiranmaya Mishra

We analyze the uncertainties introduced in the determination of the neutron star matter proton fraction, in a range of densities close to the saturation density, if the cold $\beta$-equilibrium neutron star matter equation of state (EoS) is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Pedro Barata de Tovar , Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

The roles of isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars are investigated using a range of potential and field-theoretical models of nucleonic matter. The parameters of these models are fixed by fitting the properties of homogeneous bulk…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew W. Steiner , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer , Paul J. Ellis

The dense matter equation of state (EOS) determines neutron star (NS) structure but can be calculated reliably only up to one to two times the nuclear saturation density, using accurate many-body methods that employ nuclear interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-27 Ingo Tews , Joseph Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Sanjay Reddy

We establish a correlation for the symmetry energy at saturation density $S_{0}$, slope parameter $L$ and curvature parameter $K_{\text{sym}}$ based on widely different mean field interactions. With the help of this correlation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 Jianmin Dong , Wei Zuo , Jianzhong Gu , Umberto Lombardo

The nuclear symmetry energy plays a key role in determining the equation of state (EoS) of dense, neutron-rich matter, which connects the atomic nuclei with the hot and dense matter in universe, thus has been the subject of intense…

We explore the systematics of the density dependence of nuclear matter symmetry energy in the ambit of microscopic calculations with various energy density functionals, and find that the symmetry energy from subsaturation density to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 Lie-Wen Chen

The effect of the density dependence of the nucleonic equation of state and the hyperon meson couplings on the star properties, including strangeness content, mass and radius, are studied within a relativistic mean field formalism. It is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-30 Constança Providência , Aziz Rabhi

Neutrons stars lighter than the Sun are basically composed of nuclear matter of density up to around twice normal nuclear density. In our recent analyses, we showed that possible simultaneous observations of masses and radii of such neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hajime Sotani , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

We examine how the properties of inhomogeneous nuclear matter at subnuclear densities depend on the density dependence of the symmetry energy. Using a macroscopic nuclear model we calculate the size and shape of nuclei in neutron star…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhiro Oyamatsu , Kei Iida

The impact of matter properties at subnuclear densities on the evolution of protoneutron stars is investigated. Several models of nuclear equation of state (EOS) are constructed with varying saturation parameters, particularly the symmetry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-25 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Hajime Togashi , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hideyuki Suzuki

Motivated by importance of the existence of quark matter on structure of neutron star. For this purpose, we use a suitable equation of state (EoS) which include three different parts: i) a layer of hadronic matter, ii) a mixed phase of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 B. Eslam Panah , T. Yazdizadeh , G. H. Bordbar

The eigen-frequencies of the axial w-modes of oscillating neutron stars are studied using the continued fraction method with an Equation of State (EOS) partially constrained by the recent terrestrial nuclear laboratory data. It is shown…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-26 De-Hua Wen , Bao-An Li , Plamen G. Krastev

It is shown how the Equation of State (EoS) depends on nucleon properties inside Nuclear Matter (NM). We propose to benefit from the concept of enthalpy in order to include volume corrections to the nucleon rest energy, which are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-28 Jacek Rożynek

We investigate the influence of the nuclear symmetry energy and its density slope parameter on the neutron dripline and neutron star properties using a semi-classical liquid drop model (LDM) and energy density functionals constrained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Yeunhwan Lim , Jeremy W. Holt

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy opens up an entirely new window on the Universe to probe the equations of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter. With the advent of next generation GW detectors, measuring the gravitational radiation from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-08 F. J. Fattoyev , W. G. Newton , Bao-An Li

Neutron stars are valuable laboratories for the study of dense matter. Recent observations have uncovered both massive and low-mass neutron stars and have also set constraints on neutron star radii. The largest mass measurements are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-16 James M. Lattimer

In this work we study the structure of neutron stars under the effect of a poloidal magnetic field and determine the limiting highest magnetic field intensity which still allows a satisfactory description of magnetic neutron stars in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-09 R. O. Gomes , Helena Pais , V. Dexheimer , Constança Providência , S. Schramm

We show that the widely used parabolic approximation to the Equation of State (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter leads systematically to significantly higher core-crust transition densities and pressures. Using an EOS for neutron-rich…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li , Hong-Ru Ma , Jun Xu