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We investigate the dynamics and evolution of coalescing neutron stars. Although the code (Piecewise Parabolic Method) is purely Newtonian, we do include the emission of gravitational waves and their backreaction on the hydrodynamic flow.…

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The equation of state of dense matter determines the structure of neutron stars, their typical radii, and maximum masses. Recent improvements in theoretical modeling of nuclear forces from the low-energy effective field theory of QCD has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Jeremy W. Holt , Yeunhwan Lim

The effect of the symmetry energy on the properties of compact stars is discussed. It is shown that, for stars with masses above 1 $M_\odot$, the radius of the star varies linearly with the symmetry energy slope $L$. The dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Rafael Cavagnoli , Constança Providência , Debora P. Menezes

Realistic estimations on the elastic properties of neutron star matter are carried out with a large strain ($\varepsilon \lesssim 0.5$) in the framework of relativistic-mean-field model with Thomas-Fermi approximation, where various…

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

In this work, masses and radii of neutron stars are considered to investigate the effect of nuclear symmetry energy to the astrophysical observables. A relativistic mean field model with density-dependent meson-baryon coupling constants is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Chung-Yeol Ryu , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

A compressible liquid-drop approach adjusted to uniform matter many-body calculations based on chiral EFT interactions and to the experimental nuclear masses is used to investigate the neutron star crust properties. Eight chiral EFT…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Grams , G. , Margueron , J. , Somasundaram , R. , Reddy , S

This paper reviews the physics of stars, the type, structure, evolution and stability. Simple thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are used to show the inner working of white dwarf and neutron stars. The major concentration of the paper…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Anuj Chaudhri

Neutron stars are valuable laboratories for the study of dense matter. Recent observations have uncovered both massive and low-mass neutron stars and have also set constraints on neutron star radii. The largest mass measurements are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-16 James M. Lattimer

The relativistic equations of hydrostatic equilibrium for a spherically symmetric star, or the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations are known in higher dimensions. In this paper, these equations have been expressed in terms of parameters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Manjari Bagchi

The functional form of the nuclear symmetry energy in the whole range of densities relevant for the neutron stars is still unknown. Discrepancies concern both the low as well as the high density behaviour of this function. By use of Bezier…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Sebastian Kubis , David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo

The sensitivity of the stellar moment of inertia to the neutron-star matter equation of state is examined using accurately-calibrated relativistic mean-field models. We probe this sensitivity by tuning both the density dependence of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 F. J. Fattoyev , J. Piekarewicz

Recent multi-channel astrophysics observations and the soon-to-be published new measured electromagnetic and gravitation data provide information on the inner structure of the compact stars. These macroscopic observations can significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-07 Péter Pósfay , Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi , Antal Jakovác

Neutron stars are the densest objects known in our visible universe. Properties of matter inside a neutron star are encoded in its equation of state, which has wide-ranging uncertainty from a theoretical perspective. With the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Bhaskar Biswas

We study the properties of neutron-star crust within a Bayesian framework based on a unified relativistic mean-field (RMF) description of dense matter. The analysis focuses on the posterior distributions of crust properties, constrained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Vishal Parmar , Ignazio Bombaci

The nuclear equation-of-state is a topic of highest current interest in nuclear structure and reactions as well as in astrophysics. In particular, the equation-of-state of asymmetric matter and the symmetry energy representing the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-10-13 Wolfgang Trautmann , Mircea Dan Cozma , Paolo Russotto

We investigate the effects of the symmetry energy on nuclear pasta phases and the crust-core transition in neutron stars. We employ the relativistic mean-field approach and the coexisting phases method to study the properties of pasta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 S. S. Bao , H. Shen

Screening mechanisms are often deployed by dark energy models in order to conceal the effects of their new degrees of freedom from the scrutiny of terrestrial and solar system experiments. However, extreme properties of nuclear matter may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Bernardo F. de Aguiar , Raissa F. P. Mendes , F. T. Falciano

This thesis explores compact objects, particularly neutron stars, focusing on their properties, classification, and stability within the framework of general relativity. Two distinct studies are presented. The first study examines the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 A. C. Khunt

The role of the symmetry energy and the neutron-matter stiffness on the tidal deformability of a cold nonaccreted neutron star is studied using a set of unified equations of state. Based on the nuclear energy-density functional theory,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Loic Perot , Nicolas Chamel , Aurélien Sourie