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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…

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Driven by recent laboratory experiments and astronomical observations, significant advances have deepened our understanding of neutron-star physics. NICER's Pulse Profile Modeling has refined our knowledge of neutron star masses and radii,…

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Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

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The potential role of a cosmic vacuum dark component in the properties of neutron stars is investigated. It is assumed that the static, spherically symmetric distribution of matter within neutron stars is supported by two distinct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 L. F. Araujo , J. A. S. Lima , G. Lugones

Neutron Stars (NSs), among the densest objects in the Universe, are exceptional laboratories for investigating Dark Matter (DM) properties. Recent theoretical and observational developments have heightened interest in exploring the impact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Francesco Grippa , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

The properties of neutron stars are determined by the nature of the matter that they contain. These properties can be constrained by measurements of the star's size. We obtain stringent constraints on neutron-star radii by combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Collin D. Capano , Ingo Tews , Stephanie M. Brown , Ben Margalit , Soumi De , Sumit Kumar , Duncan A. Brown , Badri Krishnan , Sanjay Reddy

It was recently suggested that the discrepancy between two methods of measuring the lifetime of the neutron may be a result of an unseen decay mode into a dark matter particle which is almost degenerate with the neutron. We explore the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 T. F. Motta , P. A. M. Guichon , A. W. Thomas

The presence of Dark matter (DM) within a neutron star (NS) can substantially influence the macroscopic properties. It is commonly assumed that the pressure inside an NS is isotropic, but in reality, pressure is locally anisotropic. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Premachand Mahapatra , Chiranjeeb Singha , Ayush Hazarika , Prasanta Kumar Das

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

We have constructed and compared models of rotating neutron stars and strange stars, within the Hartle framework. The significance of the low energy density region and crust region inside the neutron star has been studied, along with how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Wasif Husain , Anthony W. Thomas

The presence of dark matter (DM) within neutron stars (NSs) can be introduced by different accumulation scenarios in which DM and baryonic matter (BM) may interact only through the gravitational force. In this work, we consider asymmetric…

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Particles with strangeness content are predicted to populate dense matter, modifying the equation of state of matter inside neutron stars as well as their structure and evolution. In this work, we show how the modeling of strangeness…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 R. O. Gomes , Prasanta Char , S. Schramm

With the first detections of binary neutron star mergers by gravitational-wave detectors, it proves timely to consider how the internal structure of neutron stars affects the way in which they can be asymmetrically deformed. Such…

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In [Leung et al., Phys. Rev. D 84, 107301 (2011)], we presented our results on using a general relativistic two-fluid formalism to study the hydrostatic equilibrium configuration of an admixture of degenerate dark matter and normal nuclear…

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In this work, we propose a meta-modelling technique to nuclear matter on the basis of a relativistic density functional with density-dependent couplings. Identical density dependence for the couplings both in the isoscalar and isovector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Prasanta Char , Chiranjib Mondal , Francesca Gulminelli , Micaela Oertel

In recent years, there have been several successful attempts to constrain the equation of state of neutron star matter using input from low-energy nuclear physics and observational data. We demonstrate that significant further restrictions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-25 Aleksi Kurkela , Eduardo S. Fraga , Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich , Aleksi Vuorinen

Gravity compresses the matter in the cores of neutron stars to densities which are significantly higher than the density of ordinary atomic nuclei, thus providing a high-pressure environment in which numerous particle processes - from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Fridolin Weber

Neutron stars exhibit magnetic fields and densities far beyond those achievable in terrestrial laboratories, offering a natural probe of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Using observationally anchored mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Abriana Lyda , Prajwal MohanMurthy

The possibility that a neutron can be transformed to a hidden sector particle remains intriguingly open. Proposed theoretical models conjecture that the hidden sector can be represented by a mirror sector, and the neutron n can oscillate…

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