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We demonstrate that the largest measured mass of a neutron star establishes an upper bound to the energy density of observable cold matter. An equation of state-independent expression satisfied by both normal neutron stars and self-bound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James M. Lattimer Madappa Prakash

Binary neutron star mergers are thought to produce hot, rapidly rotating neutron stars with masses that can far exceed their Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff mass. The gravitational-wave emission from such remnants provides a unique opportunity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Spencer J. Magnall , Nilaksha Barman , Debarati Chatterjee , Paul D. Lasky , Simon Goode

The first inspiral of two neutron stars observed in gravitational waves was remarkably close, allowing the kind of simultaneous gravitational wave and electromagnetic observation that had not been expected for several years. Their merger,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 John L. Friedman , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The existence of a distinct mass boundary between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest black holes remains in question. It is an artefact of our ignorance of the properties of matter at supra-nuclear densities, which exist in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Rounak Mukherjee , Ritam Mallick

Aims. The mass discrepancy between the observed population of double neutron star binaries by radio pulsar observations and gravitational-wave observation requires an explanation. Methods. Binary population synthesis calculations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Matthias U. Kruckow

In the past few years, new observations of neutron stars and neutron-star mergers have provided a wealth of data that allow one to constrain the equation of state of nuclear matter at densities above nuclear saturation density. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 Peter T. H. Pang , Ingo Tews , Michael W. Coughlin , Mattia Bulla , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tim Dietrich

As neutron stars merge they can approach very high nuclear density. Here, we summarized recent results for the evolution and gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star mergers using a a variety of nuclear equations of state with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Grant J. Mathews , Atul Kedia , Hee Il Kim , In-Saeng Suh

The gravitational-wave events GW170817 and GW190425 have led to a number of important insights on the equation of state of dense matter and the properties of neutron stars, such as their radii and the maximum mass. Some of these conclusions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 L. Jens Papenfort , Elias R. Most , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

Motivated by the unknown nature of the $2.50-2.67\,M_\odot$ compact object in the binary merger event GW190814, we study the maximum neutron star mass based on constraints from low-energy nuclear physics, neutron star tidal deformabilities…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Yeunhwan Lim , Anirban Bhattacharya , Jeremy W. Holt , Debdeep Pati

Latest general relativistic simulations for merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state (EOSs) show that a hypermassive neutron star of an ellipsoidal figure is formed after the merger if the total mass is smaller than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata

We study the gravitational-wave peak luminosity and radiated energy of quasicircular neutron star mergers using a large sample of numerical relativity simulations with different binary parameters and input physics. The peak luminosity for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-21 Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice , Albino Perego , Tim Dietrich

We report the results of a first study that uses numerical simulations to estimate the accuracy with which one can use gravitational wave observations of double neutron star inspiral to measure parameters of the neutron-star equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Jocelyn S. Read , Charalampos Markakis , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman

The mass loss in putative neutron star to mixed neutron - mirror neutron star transition implies a significant change of orbital period. The precise constancy of the latter can restrict scenarios recently suggested where neutron to mirror…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Itzhak Goldman , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Shmuel Nussinov

We study an impact of asymmetric dark matter on properties of the neutron stars and their ability to reach the two solar masses limit, which allows us to present a new range of masses of dark matter particles and their fractions inside the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 O. Ivanytskyi , V. Sagun , I. Lopes

Binary neutron-star mergers will predominantly produce black-hole remnants of mass $\sim 3-4\,M_{\odot}$, thus populating the putative \emph{low mass gap} between neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes. If these low-mass black holes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Anuradha Gupta , Davide Gerosa , K. G. Arun , Emanuele Berti , Will Farr , B. S. Sathyaprakash

In the context of f(R) gravity theories, we show that the apparent mass of a neutron star as seen from an observer at infinity is numerically calculable but requires careful matching, first at the star's edge, between interior and exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-14 Miguel Aparicio Resco , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Victor Zapatero Castrillo

The first detection of gravitational waves from a merging double neutron star (DNS) binary implies a much higher rate of DNS coalescences in the local Universe than typically estimated on theoretical grounds. The recent study by Chruslinska…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Martyna Chruslinska

The lifetime of the remnant produced by the merger of two neutron stars can provide a wealth of information on the equation of state of nuclear matter and on the processes leading to the electromagnetic counterpart. Hence, it is essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Samuel D. Tootle , L. Jens Papenfort , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

Chiral Lagrangian and quark-meson coupling models of hyperon matter are used to estimate the maximum mass of neutron stars. Our relativistic calculations include, for the first time, both Hartree and Fock contributions in a consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-05 Elisabeth Massot , Jérôme Margueron , G. Chanfray

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