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Motivated by the unknown nature of the $2.50-2.67\,M_\odot$ compact object in the binary merger event GW190814, we study the maximum neutron star mass based on constraints from low-energy nuclear physics, neutron star tidal deformabilities…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Yeunhwan Lim , Anirban Bhattacharya , Jeremy W. Holt , Debdeep Pati

The equation of state (EoS) of neutron star (NS) matter is investigated considering kaon condensation. Moreover, the tidal parameters related to the components of binary neutron star mergers are determined and compared to the constraints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Z. Sharifi , M. Bigdeli , D. Alvarez-Castillo , E. Nasiri

The maximum mass of neutron stars ($M_{\rm TOV}$) plays a crucial role in understanding their equation of state (EoS). Previous studies have used the measurements for the compactness of massive pulsars and the tidal deformability of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Yong Yuan , Bing Zhang , Lin Lan

Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagnetic observations of the associated kilonovae allow us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Kelsey A. Lund , Rahul Somasundaram , Gail C. McLaughlin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower , Ingo Tews

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available. To constrain the…

We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties measurable by gravitational wave detectors (chirp mass and mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Matt Nicholl , Ben Margalit , Patricia Schmidt , Graham P. Smith , Evan J. Ridley , James Nuttall

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,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Marc Salinas , Jorge Piekarewicz

Motivated by the recent discovery of a compact object with mass in the range $2.5{-}2.67\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$ in the binary merger GW190814, we revisit the question of the maximum mass of neutron stars (NSs). We use a Markov Chain Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-22 Daniel A. Godzieba , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We present a systematic study of the properties of pure hadronic and hybrid compact stars. The nuclear equation of state (EoS) for beta-equilibrated neutron star matter was obtained using density dependent effective nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Abhishek Mishra , Partha Roy Chowdhury , D. N. Basu

Exploiting a very large library of physically plausible equations of state (EOSs) containing more than $10^{7}$ members and yielding more than $10^{9}$ stellar models, we conduct a survey of the impact that a neutron-star radius measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Lukas R. Weih , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

We investigate the effect of feeble interaction of dark matter (DM) with hadronic matter on the equation of state (EoS) and structural properties of neutron stars (NSs) in static conditions. For the purpose we adopt the effective chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Debashree Sen , Atanu Guha

The observations of PSR J0952-0607 and the second object in GW190814 event indicate the possible existence of supermassive neutron stars. In this work, by using the Constant-Sound-Speed (CSS) parametrization to describe the equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Hongyi Sun , Dehua Wen

In this work, we investigate the neutron star structure in conservative $f(R, T)$ gravity with $f(R, T)=R+\lambda T$, where $\lambda$ denotes the matter--geometry coupling. The modified stellar structure equations are solved using realistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Premachand Mahapatra , Prasanta Kumar Das

We study rotating hybrid stars, with a particular emphasis on the effect of a deconfinement phase transition on their properties at high spin. Our analysis is based on a hybrid equation of state (EoS) with a phase transition from…

Neutron star observations, including direct mass and radius measurements as well as the analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted by stellar mergers, provide valuable and unique insights into the properties of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Aleksi Vuorinen

Combining the GW observations of merging systems of binary neutron stars and quasi-universal relations, we set constraints on the maximum mass that can be attained by nonrotating stellar models of neutron stars. More specifically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-06 Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih

Using a Bayesian approach, we combine measurements of neutron star macroscopic observables obtained by astrophysical and gravitational observations, to derive joint constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of matter at supranuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Margherita Fasano , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

Gravitational waves detected from the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 constrained the NS equation of state by placing an upper bound on certain parameters describing the binary's tidal interactions. We show that the interpretation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-11 David Radice , Albino Perego , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We describe a multi-messenger interpretation of GW170817, which yields a robust lower limit on NS radii. This excludes NSs with radii smaller than about 10.7 km and thus rules out very soft nuclear matter. We stress the potential of this…

The merger of binary neutron stars is likely to lead to differentially rotating remnants. In this paper, we survey several cold nuclear equations of state (EOSs) and numerically construct models of differentially rotating neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian A. Morrison , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro