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We study solutions of the stellar structure equations for spherically symmetric objects in Palatini $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$ and $f(R,Q)=R+\alpha R^2+\beta Q$ in the mass-radius region associated to neutron stars. We illustrate the potential…
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The nucleon effective mass, binding energy and neutron star configuration in the Relativistic Mean-Field Theory (RMF) is considered. The calculation are motivated by the construction of the equation of state for a neutron star in the RMF.…
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Binary pulsar observations and gravitational wave detections seriously constrained scalar-tensor theories with massless scalar field allowing only small deviations from general relativity. If we consider a nonzero mass of the scalar field,…
We study the equation of state of beta-stable dense matter and models of neutron stars in the relativistic mean field theory with the isovector scalar mean field corresponding to the delta-meson [a_0(980)]. A range of values of the…
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