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Mature neutron stars are expected to exhibit gravity g-modes due to stratification caused by a varying matter composition in the high-density core. By employing the BSk equation of state family, and working within the relativistic Cowling…

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Measurement of at least three independent parameters, for example, mass, radius and spin frequency, of a neutron star is probably the only way to understand the nature of its supranuclear core matter. Such a measurement is extremely…

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We show here how the internal structure of a neutron star can be inferred from its gravitational wave spectrum. Under the premise that the frequencies and damping rates of a few $w$-mode oscillations are found, we apply an inversion scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. K. Tsui , P. T. Leung

Heavy-ion reactions provide a unique means to investigate the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich nuclear matter, especially the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy $E_{sym}(\rho)$. The latter plays an important role in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Plamen G. Krastev , Andrew W. Steiner , Gao-Chan Yong

We study the $f$-mode frequencies and damping times of nonrotating neutron stars (NS) in general relativity (GR) by solving the linearized perturbation equations, with the aim to establish "universal" relations that depend only weakly on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Cecilia Chirenti , Gibran H. de Souza , Wolfgang Kastaun

Depending on mass and rotational frequency, gravity compresses the matter in the core regions of neutron stars to densities that are several times higher than the density of ordinary atomic nuclei. At such huge densities atoms themselves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-04 Fridolin Weber , Milva Orsaria , Rodrigo Negreiros

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen

Precise and reliable measurements of the masses and radii of neutron stars with a variety of masses would provide valuable guidance for improving models of the properties of cold matter with densities above the saturation density of nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb

Recent observations of neutron star masses close to the maximum predicted by nucleonic equations of state begin to challenge our understanding of dense matter in neutron stars, and constrain the possible presence of quark matter in their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gordon Baym

Rapidly rotating neutron stars can be unstable to the gravitational-wave-driven CFS mechanism if they have a neutral point in the spectrum of nonaxisymmetric f-modes. We investigate the frequencies of these modes in two sequences of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Burkhard Zink , Oleg Korobkin , Erik Schnetter , Nikolaos Stergioulas

In this conference-proceedings contribution, we review recent advances in placing model-independent constraints on the properties of cold and dense QCD matter inside neutron stars. In addition to introducing new bounds for the Equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Joonas Nättilä , Aleksi Vuorinen

Neutron stars are the densest known objects in the universe and an ideal laboratory for the strange physics of super-condensed matter. Theoretical studies in connection with recent observational data of isolated neutron stars, as well as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-09 P. S. Koliogiannis , A. Kanakis-Pegios , Ch. C. Moustakidis

We explore constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter based on microscopic calculations up to nuclear densities and observations of neutron stars. In a previous work we showed that predictions based on modern nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-08 S. K. Greif , K. Hebeler , J. M. Lattimer , C. J. Pethick , A. Schwenk

Compact relativistic stars allow us to study the nature of matter under extreme conditions, probing regions of parameter space that are otherwise inaccessible. Nuclear theory in this regime is not well constrained: one key issue is whether…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anna L. Watts , Sanjay Reddy

We use time-evolutions of the linear perturbation equations to study the oscillations of rapidly rotating neutrons stars. Our models account for the buoyancy due to composition gradients and we study, for the first time, the nature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Passamonti , B. Haskell , N. Andersson , D. I. Jones , I. Hawke

In this work we study the r-mode instability windows and the gravitational wave signatures of neutron stars in the slow rotation approximation using the equation of state obtained from the density dependent M3Y effective interaction. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Somnath Mukhopadhyay , Joydev Lahiri , Debasis Atta , Kouser Imam , D. N. Basu

Employing a recently proposed metamodeling for the nucleonic matter equation of state we analyze neutron star global properties such as masses, radii, momentum of inertia, and others. The impact of the uncertainty on empirical parameters on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 J. Margueron , R. Hoffmann Casali , F. Gulminelli

Chandra or XMM-Newton observations of quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries can provide important constraints on the equation of state of neutron stars. The mass and radius of the neutron star can potentially be determined from fitting a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. G. Jonker

We investigate theoretical and observational constraints on the mass-radius relations for neutron stars. For that purpose we consider the model of neutron stars taking into considerations strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 Kuantay Boshkayev , Jorge A. Rueda , Marco Muccino

We search for possible correlations between neutron star observables and thermodynamic quantities that characterize high density nuclear matter. We generate a set of model-independent equations of state describing stellar matter from a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Márcio Ferreira , M. Fortin , Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência