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The study of neutron stars, or more general compact stars, is a topic of central interest in nuclear astrophysics. Furthermore, neutron stars serve as the only physical systems whose properties can be used to infer information on cold and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros , T. Schürhoff , J. Steinheimer

This study investigates the radial oscillations of hybrid neutron stars, characterized by a composition of hadronic external layers and a quark matter core. Utilizing a density-dependent relativistic mean-field model that incorporates…

We investigate the hadron-quark phase transition in cold neutron stars in light of (i) the observed limits on the maximum-mass of heavy pulsars, (ii) constraints on the tidal properties inferred from the gravitational waves emitted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-11 German Malfatti , Milva G. Orsaria , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval , Gustavo A. Contrera , Fridolin Weber

In the present paper we investigate self-consistently slowly rotating neutron and strange stars in R-squared gravity. For this purpose we first derive the equations describing the structure of the slowly rotating compact stars in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We extend the quark mean-field (QMF) model for nuclear matter and study the possible presence of quark matter inside the cores of neutron stars. A sharp first-order hadron-quark phase transition is implemented combining the QMF for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-30 Zhiqiang Miao , Ang Li , Zhenyu Zhu , Sophia Han

We study the hadron-quark phase transition in the interior of neutron stars. The relativistic mean field (RMF) theory is adopted to describe the hadronic matter phase, while the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model is used for the quark matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Yang , H. Shen

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

At the ultra-high densities existing in the core of neutron stars, it is expected that a phase transition from baryonic to deconfined quark matter may occur. Such a phase transition would affect the underlying equation of state (EoS) as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Swarnim Shirke , Suprovo Ghosh , Debarati Chatterjee

Using relativistic Hartree-Fock approximation, we investigate the properties of the neutron-star matter in detail. In the present calculation, we consider not only the tensor coupling of vector mesons to octet baryons and the form factors…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Tetsuya Katayama , Tsuyoshi Miyatsu , Koichi Saito

Rapid uniformly-rotating neutron stars are expected to be formed for instance in the collapse of some massive stars, the accretion of compact object binaries, and double neutron star mergers. The huge amount of the rotational energy has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Shao-Peng Tang , Yong-Jia Huang , Yi-Zhong Fan

Observations indicate that the magnetic fields on neutron stars (NSs) lie in the range of $10^{8}$-$10^{15}$ G. We investigate rotating NSs with chaotic magnetic fields in both general relativity (GR) and Rastall gravity (RG). The equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 M. Lawrence Pattersons , Freddy P. Zen , Hadyan L. Prihadi , Muhammad F. A. R. Sakti , Getbogi Hikmawan

The stability properties of rotating relativistic stars against prompt gravitational collapse to a black hole are rather well understood for uniformly rotating models. This is not the case for differentially rotating neutron stars, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-12 Lukas R. Weih , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

We study rapidly rotating hybrid stars with the Dyson-Schwinger model for quark matter and the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock many-body theory with realistic two-body and three-body forces for nuclear matter. We determine the maximum gravitational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 J. -B. Wei , H. Chen , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

Three parameterizations DOPS1, DOPS2, and DOPS3 (named after the Department of Physics Shimla) of the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) model have been proposed with the inclusion of all possible self and mixed interactions between the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Virender Thakur , Raj Kumar , Pankaj Kumar , Vikesh Kumar , B. K. Agrawal , Shashi K. Dhiman

A compact object was observed with a mass $2.50-2.67~M_\odot$ by LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations (LVC) in GW190814, which provides a great challenge to the investigations into the supranuclear matter. To study this object,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen

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

Dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) is used to study neutron matter, both with and without admixture of the proton fraction. The system is approximated by the lattice Habbard model. The corresponding equation of state as a function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Maxim Velikanov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Boris Krippa

The analyses for the NICER data imply $R_{2.0M_\odot}=12.41^{+1.00}_{-1.10}$ km and $R_{1.4M_\odot}=12.56^{+1.00}_{-1.07}$ km, indicating the lack of significant variation of the radii from $1.4 M_\odot$ to $2.0 M_\odot$. This feature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Y. Yamamoto , N. Yasutake , Th. A. Rijken

A broad sample of computed realistic equations of state of superdense matter with quark phase transition is used to construct a series of models neutron stars with a strange quark core. The integral characteristics of the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. B. Alaverdyan , A. R. Harutyunyan , Yu. L. Vartanyan

The properties of dense QCD matter are delineated through the construction of equations of state which should be consistent with the low and high density limits of QCD, nuclear laboratory experiments, and the neutron star observations.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-12 Toru Kojo