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It is of great interest to understand the equation of state (EOS) of the neutron star (NS), whose core includes highly dense matter. However, there are large uncertainties in the theoretical predictions for the EOS of NS. It is useful to…

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Using more than a million randomly generated equations of state that satisfy theoretical and observational constraints we construct a novel, scale-independent description of the sound speed in neutron stars where the latter is expressed in…

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The existence of neutron stars with $2M_\odot$ requires the strong stiffness of the equation of state (EoS) of neutron-star matter. We introduce a multi-pomeron exchange potential (MPP) working universally among 3- and 4-baryons to stiffen…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Y. Yamamoto , H. Togashi , T. Tamagawa , T. Furumoto , N. Yasutake , Th. A. Rijken

The parametrized equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars is investigated by Bayesian inference method with various constraints from both nuclear physics and modern astronomical observations. The expansion coefficients correspond to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Xieyuan Dong , Hong Shen , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang

We construct a physics-agnostic approach to the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) based on a sound speed model, which connects both low-density information from nuclear theory and high-density constraints from perturbative QCD…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews , Jérôme Margueron

Massive neutron stars (NS) are expected to possess a quark core. While the hadronic side of the NS equation of state (EOS) can be considered well established, the quark side is quite uncertain. While calculating the EOS of hadronic matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. F. Burgio , M. Baldo , P. K. Sahu , A. B. Santra , H. -J. Schulze

Information on the phase structure of strongly interacting matter at high baryon densities can be gained from observations of neutron stars and their detailed analysis. In the present work Bayesian inference methods are used to set…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-12 Len Brandes , Wolfram Weise , Norbert Kaiser

We study how the $\Lambda$ hyperon threshold influences the radius of the canonical $1.4 ~M_\odot$ neutron star in the light of the measurements found in the recent literature. We show that the onset of a new degree of freedom not only…

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Sound speed can be an important tool in unraveling the nature of matter that exists at the cores of neutron stars. In this study, we investigate three major classes of equations of state; monotonous, non-monotonous and discontinuous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Anshuman Verma , Asim Kumar Saha , Tuhin Malik , Ritam Mallick

Measurements of neutron star masses, radii, and tidal deformability have direct connections to nuclear physics via the equation of state (EoS), which for the cold, catalyzed matter in neutron star cores is commonly represented as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Debora Mroczek , M. Coleman Miller , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Nicolas Yunes

In order to reveal the difference between the latest neutron star observation experiment GW170817 and the existing theory, we mainly consider the effect of the nucleon radius on the neutron star from the existing theory. We believe that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Wei Kou , Xiaopeng Wang , Xurong Chen

Neutron-star radii provide useful information on the equation of state of neutron rich matter. Particularly interesting is the density dependence of the equation of state (EOS). For example, the softening of the EOS at high density, where…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Carriere , C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

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 stellar compactness, that is, the dimensionless ratio between the mass and radius of a compact star, $\mathcal{C} := M/R$, plays a fundamental role in characterising the gravitational and nuclear-physics aspects of neutron stars. Yet,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Luciano Rezzolla , Christian Ecker

The NASA telescope NICER has recently measured x-ray emissions from the heaviest of the precisely known two-solar mass neutron stars, PSR J0740+6620. Analysis of the data [Miller et al., Astrophys. J. Lett. 918, L28 (2021); Riley et al.,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Christian Drischler , Sophia Han , Sanjay Reddy

Matter properties at the intermediate densities are still unknown to us. In this work, we use a neural network approach to study matter at intermediate densities to analyze the variation of the speed of sound and the measure of trace…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Sagnik Chatterjee , Harsha Sudhakaran , Ritam Mallick

We study the properties of non-rotating and rotating neutron stars for a new set of equations of state (EOSs) with different high density behaviour obtained using the extended field theoretical model. The high density behaviour for these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Shashi K. Dhiman , Raj Kumar , B. K. Agrawal

Background: Constraining the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS) from neutron star observations is one of the main subjects in nuclear physics today. In general, neutron stars rotate rapidly and structure of neutron stars can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Hyukjin Kwon , Kazuyuki Sekizawa

Neutron stars are commonly considered as astronomical objects having highdensity interiors and an inner core region in which various hadronic matter phases are expected. Several studies show that the inner structures affect macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Tomoki Endo

The detection of GW170817, the first neutron star-neutron star merger observed by Advanced LIGO and Virgo, and its following analyses represent the first contributions of gravitational wave (GW) data to understanding dense matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Rossella Gamba , Jocelyn S. Read , Leslie E. Wade