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The increasing number and precision of measurements of neutron star masses, radii, and, in the near future, moments of inertia offer the possibility of precisely determining the neutron star equation of state. One way to facilitate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Carolyn A. Raithel , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

We implement a semi-analytic approach for stability analysis, addressing the ongoing uncertainty about stability and structure of neutron star magnetic fields. Applying the energy variational principle, a model system is displaced from its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-25 Marlene Herbrik , Kostas Kokkotas

We describe a numerical method for calculating the (3+1) dimensional general relativistic hydrodynamics of a coalescing neutron-star binary system. The relativistic field equations are solved at each time slice with a spatial 3-metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 J. R. Wilson , G. J. Mathews , P. Marronetti

The realistic models of neutron stars are considered for simple $R+\alpha R^2$ gravity and equivalent Brance-Dicke theory with dilaton field in Einsein frame. For negative values of $\alpha$ we have no acceptable results from astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Artyom V. Astashenok , Alexey S. Baigashov , Sergey A. Lapin

There is a growing interest in investigating modified theories of gravity, primarily, with the aim of explaining the universe's accelerated expansion, which has been confirmed by several independent observations. Compact objects, like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 K Nobleson , Tuhin Malik , Sarmistha Banik

The current work investigates the structural properties of neutron stars in the presence of a strong magnetic field within the framework of f(R,T) modified gravity, where the matter-geometry coupling leads to deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Charul Rathod , M. Mishra , Prasanta Kumar Das

Owed to their compactness, neutron stars involve strong gravity and extreme density physics. Nevertheless, at present, there are a variety of problems where progress (at least conceptually) can be made in the context of weak gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Nils Andersson , Fabian Gittins , Shanshan Yin , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Neutron stars provide a unique opportunity to study strongly interacting matter under extreme density conditions. The intricacies of matter inside neutron stars and their equation of state are not directly visible, but determine bulk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Len Brandes , Chirag Modi , Aishik Ghosh , Delaney Farrell , Lee Lindblom , Lukas Heinrich , Andrew W. Steiner , Fridolin Weber , Daniel Whiteson

Gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers provide valuable information about neutron star structure and the equation of state of dense nuclear matter. Numerous methods have been proposed to analyze the population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Jacob Golomb , Colm Talbot

Many physically inspired general relativity (GR) modifications predict significant deviations in the properties of spacetime surrounding massive neutron stars. Among these modifications is $f(\mathcal{R}, \mathbb{T})$, where $\mathcal{R}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 G. G. L Nashed

Quasi-universal relations are known to exist among various neutron star observables that do not depend sensitively on the underlying nuclear matter equations of state. For example, some of these relations imply that the tidally induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Takuya Katagiri , Gowtham Rishi Mukkamala , Kent Yagi

We study slowly-rotating neutron stars in ghost-free massive bigravity. This theory modifies General Relativity by introducing a second, auxiliary but dynamical tensor field that couples to matter through the physical metric tensor through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolas Yunes

In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and after the merger of binary neutron stars. I also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-30 Luca Baiotti

We discuss the stability and construct dynamical configurations describing the gravitational collapse of unstable neutron stars with realistic equations of state compatible with the recent LIGO-Virgo constraints. Unlike other works that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 J. M. Z. Pretel , M. F. A. da Silva

Neutron stars are unique laboratories to probe matter in extreme conditions, not accessible in terrestrial laboratories. Here, we discuss the modelling of the neutron-star equation of state, particularly in connection with recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 F. Gulminelli , A. F. Fantina

One of the key ingredients to understand the properties of neutrons stars is the equation of state at finite densities far beyond nuclear saturation. Investigating the phase structure of quark matter that might be realized in the core of NS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 T. Klahn , C. D. Roberts , D. B. Blaschke , F. Sandin

A modified Mimetic gravity (MMG) is proposed as a generalization of general relativity. The model contain a physical metric which is function of an auxiliary (unphysical) metric and a Lyra's metric. We construct different kinds of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-07 Davood Momeni , Aziza Altaibayeva , Ratbay Myrzakulov

As a preliminary step towards simulating binary neutron star coalescing problem, we test a post-Newtonian approach by constructing a single neutron star model. We expand the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation of hydrostatic equilibrium by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hisa-aki Shinkai

Considering the non-Newtonian gravity proposed in the grand unification theories, we show that the stability and observed global properties of neutron stars can not rule out the super-soft nuclear symmetry energies at supra-saturation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 De-Hua Wen , Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen

In this work, we study neutron stars (NSs) in an ungravity (UG) inspired model. We examine the UG effects on the static properties of the selected NSs, in different mass and radius regimes, i.e., mini, moderate, and heavy NSs, using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Hodjat Mariji , Orfeu Bertolami