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The binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has cast a new light on nuclear physics research. Using a neutron-star model that includes a crust equation of state (EoS), we calculate the properties of a 1.4 solar-mass neutron star. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , Pawel Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagnetic observations of the associated kilonovae allow us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Kelsey A. Lund , Rahul Somasundaram , Gail C. McLaughlin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower , Ingo Tews

Neutron star radii are primarily determined by the pressure of isospin asymmetric matter which is proportional to the slope of the nuclear symmetry energy. Available terrestrial laboratory data on the isospin diffusion in heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Bao-An Li , Andrew W. Steiner

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

Pulse profile modeling of X-ray data from NICER is now enabling precision inference of neutron star mass and radius. Combined with nuclear physics constraints from chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT), and masses and tidal…

Neutron star matter spans a wide range of densities, from that of nuclei at the surface to exceeding several times normal nuclear matter density in the core. While terrestrial experiments, such as nuclear or heavy-ion collision experiments,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Suprovo Ghosh , Debarati Chatterjee , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Neutron star observations, including direct mass and radius measurements as well as the analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted by stellar mergers, provide valuable and unique insights into the properties of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Aleksi Vuorinen

We investigate constraints on neutron star structure arising from the assumptions that neutron stars have crusts, that recent calculations of pure neutron matter limit the equation of state of neutron star matter near the nuclear saturation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 A. W. Steiner , J. M. Lattimer , E. F. Brown

We report on the detailed modelling of the X-ray spectra of three likely neutron stars. The neutron stars, observed with XMM-Newton are found in three quiescent X-ray binaries in the globular clusters: omega Cen, M 13 and NGC 2808. Whether…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Webb , D. Barret

One of the major uncertainties in the dense matter equation of state has been the nuclear symmetry energy. The density dependence of the symmetry energy is important in nuclear astrophysics, as it controls the neutronization of matter in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-01 James M. Lattimer , Yeunhwan Lim

Neutron stars are one of the most extreme objects in the universe, with densities that can exceed those of atomic nuclei and gravitational fields that are among the strongest known. Theoretical and observational research on neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-16 J. Alfredo Collazos

A compact object was observed with a mass $2.50-2.67~M_\odot$ by LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations (LVC) in GW190814, which provides a great challenge to the investigations into the supranuclear matter. To study this object,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen

The combined detection of a binary neutron-star merger in both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation spanning the entire spectrum -- GW170817 / AT2017gfo / GRB170817A -- marks a breakthrough in the field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich , Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers are expected to provide stringent constraints on the structure of neutron stars. At the same time, recent advances in nuclear theory have enabled reliable calculations of the low density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

The discovery of two neutron stars with gravitational masses $\approx 2~M_\odot$ has placed a strong lower limit on the maximum mass of nonrotating neutron stars, and with it a strong constraint on the properties of cold matter beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Scott Lawrence , Justin G. Tervala , Paulo F. Bedaque , M. Coleman Miller

We present a comprehensive study of spectroscopic radius measurements of twelve neutron stars obtained during thermonuclear bursts or in quiescence. We incorporate, for the first time, a large number of systematic uncertainties in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Tolga Guver , Gordon Baym , Craig Heinke , Sebastien Guillot

Using a Bayesian approach, we combine measurements of neutron star macroscopic observables obtained by astrophysical and gravitational observations, to derive joint constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of matter at supranuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Margherita Fasano , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

The next generation of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors will observe mergers of black holes and neutron stars throughout cosmic time. A large number of the binary neutron star merger events will be observed with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-08 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Keisi Kacanja , Rahul Somasundaram , Alexander H. Nitz , Duncan A. Brown

The possible signatures of the presence of hyperons inside neutron stars are discussed within a Bayesian inference framework applied to a set of models based on a density-dependent relativistic mean-field description of hadronic matter.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência

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