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The study of neutron stars is a topic of central interest in the investigation of the properties of strongly compressed hadronic matter. Whereas in heavy-ion collisions the fireball, created in the collision zone, contains very hot matter,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros , T. Schürhoff , J. Steinheimer

Multi-messenger astronomical observations of neutron stars, together with more precise calculations and constraints coming from dense matter microphysics, are generating tension with regard to equations of state models used to describe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Mauro Mariani , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval

In this work we present a study of magnetars composed of hadronic and quark matter, under the influence of strong magnetic fields. We present our results for hadronic matter taking into account the effects that the inclusion of anomalous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 R. Casali , L. B. Castro , D. P. Menezes

We investigate systematically the quark-hadron mixed phase in dense stellar matter, and its influence on compact star structures. The properties of quark matter and hadronic matter are fixed based on various model predictions. Beside…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Cheng-Jun Xia , Toshiki Maruyama , Nobutoshi Yasutake , Toshitaka Tatsumi , Hong Shen , Hajime Togashi

We study hybrid stars considering the effects on stellar stability of the hadron-quark conversion speed at the sharp interface. The equation of state is constructed by combining a model-agnostic hadronic description with a constant speed of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Germán Lugones , Mauro Mariani , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval

We present a systematic investigation of the possible locations for the special point (SP), a unique feature of hybrid neutron stars in the mass-radius. The study is performed within the two-phase approach where the high-density (quark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-31 Mateusz Cierniak , David Blaschke

Updated constraints from neutron star masses and radii impose stronger restrictions on the equation of state for baryonic matter at high densities and low temperatures. The existence of two-solar-mass neutron stars rules out many soft…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Thomas Hell , Wolfram Weise

Hybrid neutron stars, the compact objects consisting hadronic matter and strange quark matter, can be considered as the probes for the scalar tensor gravity. In this work, we explore the scalarization of hybrid neutron stars in the scalar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Fahimeh Rahimi , Zeinab Rezaei

We perform a systematic study of hybrid star configurations using several parametrizations of a relativistic mean-field hadronic EoS and the NJL model for three-flavor quark matter. For the hadronic phase we use the stiff GM1 and TM1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-21 C. H. Lenzi , G. Lugones

In this contribution, we describe new chemically-equilibrated charge-neutral hybrid equations of state for neutron stars. They present a first-order phase transition to quark matter and differentiate by the particle population considered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 A. Clevinger , J. Corkish , K. Aryal , V. Dexheimer

We present a unified description of dense matter and neutron-star structure based on simple but physically motivated models. Starting from the thermodynamics of degenerate Fermi gases, we construct an equation of state for cold, catalyzed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Elissaios Andronopoulos , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

Hybrid star is the term given to a neutron star with a quark core. Due to a lot of uncertainties in the calculations and compositions of such a high-density system, it is of great interest and a preferred scenario for particle physicists…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Akashdip Karmakar , Pramit Rej

Some recent pulsar observations cannot naturally fit into the conventional picture of neutron stars: the compact objects associated with HESS J1731-347 and XTE J1814-338 have too small radii in the low-mass regime, while the secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen Zhang , Juan M. Z. Pretel , Renxin Xu

Concerning the stability of two-fluid star models, we prove the rigorous equivalence of two independent determining methods for mixed stars, after a brief review of the hybrid star case. Our derivations apply to general multi-fluid cases,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Xiao-Ding Zhou , Tian-Shun Chen , Si-Man Wu , Kilar Zhang

In this paper, we use the equation of state based on a modification of 2+1 flavors Nambu-Jona- Lasinio (NJL) model to study the quark matter of hybrid stars. For comparison, we utilize five EOSs of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-22 Cheng-Ming Li , Jin-Li Zhang , Yan Yan , Yong-Feng Huang , Hong-Shi Zong

Neutron stars (NSs) are interesting objects capable of reaching densities unattainable on Earth. The properties of matter under these conditions remain a mystery. Exotic matter, including quark matter, may be present in the NS core. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Milena Albino , Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

Neutron stars with extremely high central energy density are natural laboratories to investigate the appearance and the properties of compactified extra dimensions with small compactification radius, if they exist. Using the same formalism,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. G. Barnafoldi , P. Levai , B. Lukacs

We investigate radial oscillations of pure neutron stars and hybrid stars, employing equations of state of nuclear matter from Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory, and of quark matter from the Dyson-Schwinger quark model, performing a Gibbs…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Ting-Ting Sun , Zi-Yue Zheng , Huan Chen , G. Fiorella Burgio , Hans-Josef Schulze

In this review we highlight a few physical properties of neutron stars and their theoretical treatment inasmuch as they can be useful for nuclear and particle physicists concerned with matter at finite density (and newly, temperature).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-23 Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Eva Lope-Oter

We derive the bulk viscous damping timescale of hybrid stars, neutron stars with quark matter core. The r-mode instability windows of the stars show that the theoretical results are consistent with the rapid rotation pulsar data, which may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiaoping Zheng , Nana Pan , Shuhua Yang , Xuewen Liu , Miao Kang , Jiarong Li