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Simultaneous, precise measurements of the mass $M$ and radius $R$ of neutron stars can yield uniquely valuable information about the still uncertain properties of cold matter at several times the density of nuclear matter. One method that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ka-Ho Lo , M. Coleman Miller , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Frederick K. Lamb

The determination of neutron star masses is reviewed in light of a new measurement of 1.97 M$_\odot$ for PSR J1614-2230 and an estimate of 2.4 M$_\odot$ for the black widow pulsar. Using a simple analytic model related to the so-called…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 James M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

Gravitational-wave astronomy shows great promise in determining nuclear physics in a regime not accessible to terrestrial experiments. We introduce physics-informed priors constrained by nuclear theory and perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Spencer J. Magnall , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla , Paul D. Lasky , Simon R. Goode

Recent observational results for the masses and radii of some neutron stars are in contrast with typical observations and theoretical predictions for "normal" neutron stars. We propose that their unusual properties can be interpreted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-27 Paolo Ciarcelluti , Fredrik Sandin

Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-28 Raghuveer Garani , Yoann Genolini , Thomas Hambye

Measurement of macroscopic properties of neutron stars, whether in binary or in an isolated system, provides us a key opportunity to place a stringent constraint on its equation of state. In this paper, we perform Bayesian model-selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-28 Bhaskar Biswas

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties measurable by gravitational wave detectors (chirp mass and mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Matt Nicholl , Ben Margalit , Patricia Schmidt , Graham P. Smith , Evan J. Ridley , James Nuttall

The coalescence of a neutron-star binary is likely to result in the formation of a neutron-star merger remnant for a large range of binary mass configurations. The massive merger remnant shows strong oscillations, which are excited by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 A. Bauswein , J. Clark , N. Stergioulas , H. -T. Janka

The maximum mass of a neutron star is generally determined by the equation of state of the star material. In this study, we take into account dark matter particles, assumed to behave like fermions with a free parameter to account for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Ang Li , Feng Huang , Ren-Xin Xu

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

We propose to determine the mass and the radius of a neutron star (NS) using three measurable mass-radius relationships, namely the ``apparent'' radius inferred from neutron star thermal emission, the gravitational redshift inferred from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. M. Zhang , H. X. Yin , Y. Kojima , H. K. Chang , R. X. Xu , X. D. Li , B. Zhang , B. Kiziltan

The maximum mass of neutron stars ($M_{\rm TOV}$) plays a crucial role in understanding their equation of state (EoS). Previous studies have used the measurements for the compactness of massive pulsars and the tidal deformability of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Yong Yuan , Bing Zhang , Lin Lan

Compact objects observed via gravitational waves are classified as black holes or neutron stars primarily based on their inferred mass with respect to stellar evolution expectations. However, astrophysical expectations for the lowest mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Jacob Golomb , Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Adrian Abac , Tim Dietrich

Prospects of establishing the radii of massive neutron stars in PSR J1614-2230 and PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and Chandra observatories hold the potential to constrain the equation of state (EoS) of matter to densities well beyond those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-27 Sophia Han , Madappa Prakash

Binary neutron star mergers are strong gravitational wave (GW) sources and the leading candidates to interpret short duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). Under the assumptions that SGRBs are produced by double neutron star mergers and that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-06 He Gao , Bing Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü

Neutron stars are some of the densest manifestations of massive objects in the universe. They are ideal astrophysical laboratories for testing theories of dense matter physics and provide connections among nuclear physics, particle physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

We reexamine the equation of state for the nucleonic and hyperonic inner core of neutron stars that satisfies the 2$M_{\odot}$ observations as well as the recent determinations of stellar radii below 13 km, while fulfilling the saturation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-08 Laura Tolos , Mario Centelles , Angels Ramos

The determination of the equation of state (EOS) for nuclear matter has been one of the biggest problems in nuclear astrophysics, because the EOS is essential for determining the properties of neutron stars. To constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Hajime Sotani , Nobuya Nishimura , Tomoya Naito

We have constrained the charge-mass ($\varepsilon-m$) phase space of millicharged particles through the simulation of the rotational evolution of neutron stars, where an extra slow-down effect due to the accretions of millicharged dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-28 Xi Huang , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Wei-Hua Wang , Shao-Ze Li