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Fully general-relativistic binary-neutron-star (BNS) merger simulations with quark-hadron crossover (QHC) equations of state (EOSs) are studied for the first time. In contrast to EOSs with purely hadronic matter or with a first-order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-18 Yong-Jia Huang , Luca Baiotti , Toru Kojo , Kentaro Takami , Hajime Sotani , Hajime Togashi , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Shigehiro Nagataki , Yi-Zhong Fan

We investigate binary neutron star (BNS) mergers using general-relativistic numerical simulations with hadronic and hybrid equations of state (EOSs), incorporating the latest observations and theoretical constraints. We address two viable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Sudipta Hensh , Yong-Jia Huang , Toru Kojo , Luca Baiotti , Kentaro Takami , Shigehiro Nagataki , Hajime Sotani

The possibility of discovering twin stars, two neutron stars (NSs) with the same mass but different radii, is usually studied in forward modelings by using a restricted number of NS matter equation of state (EOS) encapsulating a first-order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-10 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

We consider the influence of potential quark matter existing at high densities in neutron star interiors on gravitational waves (GW) emitted in a binary neutron star merger event. Two types of equations of state (EoS) at zero temperatures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Oechslin , K. Uryū , G. Poghosyan , F. K. Thielemann

We study observational signatures of the hadron-quark crossover in binary-neutron-star mergers by numerical-relativity simulations with various mass configurations. We employ two equations of state (EoSs) for matter consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku

We perform an extensive study of equation of state (EoS) models featuring a phase transition from hadronic to deconfined quark matter in neutron star merger simulations. We employ three different hadronic EoSs, a constant speed of sound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Sebastian Blacker , Andreas Bauswein

The hadron--quark crossover equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter is investigated by combining relativistic mean-field (RMF) hadronic models with the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model for quark matter. The vector and diquark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Xuesong Geng , Kaixuan Huang , Hong Shen , Lei Li , Jinniu Hu

We perform a numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of binary neutron stars with 6 nuclear-theory-based equations of state (EOSs) described by piecewise polytropes. Our purpose is to explore the dependence of the dynamical behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-13 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Kenta Kiuchi

The cores of neutron stars (NSs) near the maximum mass realize the most highly compressed matter in the universe where quark degrees of freedom may be liberated. Such a state of dense matter is hypothesized as quark matter (QM) and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku

The dynamics in mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) systems depend sensitively on the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter. This has profound implications on the emission of gravitational waves (GWs) and the ejection of matter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Maximilian Jacobi , Federico Maria Guercilena , Sabrina Huth , Giacomo Ricigliano , Almudena Arcones , Achim Schwenk

On the basis of the percolation picture from the hadronic phase with hyperons to the quark phase with strangeness, we construct a new equation of state (EOS) with the pressure interpolated as a function of the baryon density. The maximum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Kota Masuda , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

We investigate the role of hybrid and nucleonic equations of state (EOSs) within neutron star (NS) interiors using Bayesian inference to evaluate their alignment with recent observational data from NICER and LIGO-Virgo (LV) collaborations.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Debanjan Guha Roy , Anagh Venneti , Tuhin Malik , Swastik Bhattacharya , Sarmistha Banik

Multi-messenger observations of neutron star (NS) mergers have the potential to revolutionize nuclear astrophysics. They will improve our understanding of nucleosynthesis, provide insights about the equation of state (EOS) of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-24 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

Bulk properties of cold and hot neutron stars (NSs) are studied on the basis of the hadron-quark crossover picture where a smooth transition from the hadronic phase to the quark phase takes place at finite baryon density. By using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Kota Masuda , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

We perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

(abridged) We investigate the quark deconfinement phase transition in the context of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. We employ a new finite-temperature composition-dependent equation of state (EOS) with a first order phase transition…

The Equation of State (EOS) of dense strongly-interacting matter can be probed by astrophysical observations of neutron stars (NS), such as X-ray detections of pulsars or the measurement of the tidal deformability of NSs during the inspiral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Maximiliano Ujevic , Rahul Somasundaram , Tim Dietrich , Jerome Margueron , Ingo Tews

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating both nucleonic and hyperonic finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling. It is found that for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

We simulate the merger of binary neutron stars and analyze the spectral properties of their gravitational waveforms. For the stars we construct hybrid equations of state (EoSs) with a standard nuclear matter EoS at low densities,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Christian Ecker , Matti Järvinen , Govert Nijs , Wilke van der Schee

With ongoing advancements in nuclear theory and experimentation, together with a growing body of neutron star (NS) observations, a wealth of information on the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities has become accessible.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Bhaskar Biswas , Stephan Rosswog
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