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The effects of nonlinear oscillations in compact stars are attracting considerable current interest. In order to study such phenomena in the framework of fully nonlinear general relativity, highly accurate numerical studies are required. We…

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In order to systematically examine the possible maximum mass of neutron stars, which is one of the important properties characterizing the physics in high-density region, I construct neutron star models by adopting phenomenological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Hajime Sotani

The theory governing the strong nuclear force, Quantum Chromodynamics, predicts that at sufficiently high energy densities hadronic nuclear matter undergoes a deconfinement transition to a new phase of quarks and gluons. Although this has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Joonas Nättilä , Aleksi Vuorinen

This study investigates the first-order phase transition within neutron stars, leveraging the deep neural network (DNN) framework alongside contemporary astronomical measurements. The equation of state (EOS) for neutron stars is delineated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Wenjie Zhou , Hong Shen , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang

The trace anomaly of dense matter, $\Delta \equiv 1/3 - P/\varepsilon$, defined through the ratio $w \equiv P/\varepsilon$ of pressure $P$ to energy density $\varepsilon$, quantifies deviations from conformal symmetry and provides a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Bao-An Li

The speed of sound of the matter within neutron stars may contain non-smooth structure related to first-order phase transitions or or crossovers. Here we investigate what are the observable consequences of structure, such as bumps, spikes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Hung Tan , Travis Dore , Veronica Dexheimer , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Nicolás Yunes

Neutron stars are some of the densest manifestations of massive objects in the universe. They are ideal astrophysical laboratories for testing theories of dense matter physics and provide connections among nuclear physics, particle physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

Astrophysical observations from NICER and gravitational wave data constrain the properties of matter at the cores of neutron stars, enabling us to probe high-density matter with greater accuracy. To understand its implications for neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Asim Kumar Saha , Tuhin Malik , Ritam Mallick

We point out that there is an upper bound on the speed of sound squared given by $c_s^2 \leq 0.781$ valid for all known systems described by relativistic transient hydrodynamics where calculations of certain ratios of hydrodynamic transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha , Paul Romatschke

The oscillation spectrum of a perturbed neutron star is intimately related to the physical properties of the star, such as the equation of state. Observing pulsating neutron stars therefore allows one to place constraints on these physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Arthur G Suvorov

The profile of a neutron star probes a very large range of densities, from the density of iron up to several times the density of saturated nuclear matter, and thus no theory of hadrons can be considered reliable if extended to those…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-20 Francesca Sammarruca , Tomiwa Ajagbonna

A common alternative to the standard assumption of nucleonic composition of matter in the interior of a neutron star is to include strange baryons, particularly hyperons. Any change in composition of the neutron star core has an effect on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Vinh Tran , Suprovo Ghosh , Nicholas Lozano , Debarati Chatterjee , Prashanth Jaikumar

The non-linear behaviour of oscillation modes in compact stars is a topic of considerable current interest. Accurate numerical studies of such phenomena are likely to require powerful new approaches to both fluid and spacetime computations.…

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We delineate the properties of dense QCD matter through equations of state constrained by the neutron star observations. The two solar mass constraint, the radius constraint of 11-13 km, and the causality constraint on the speed of sound,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-19 Toru Kojo

While the equation of state (EOS) $P(\varepsilon)$ of neutron star (NS) matter has been extensively studied, the EOS-parameter $\phi = P/\varepsilon$ or equivalently the dimensionless trace anomaly $\Delta = 1/3 - \phi$, which quantifies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , Yu-Gang Ma

The NASA telescope NICER has recently measured x-ray emissions from the heaviest of the precisely known two-solar mass neutron stars, PSR J0740+6620. Analysis of the data [Miller et al., Astrophys. J. Lett. 918, L28 (2021); Riley et al.,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Christian Drischler , Sophia Han , Sanjay Reddy

Performing Bayesian inference on quarkyonic equation-of-state models for neutron star matter, we find they satisfy all current astrophysical observations, thus reinforcing the argument for the use of such neutron star matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Probit J Kalita , Tuhin Malik , Tianqi Zhao , Bharat Kumar , James M. Lattimer

We study the stability against infinitesimal radial oscillations of neutron stars generated by a set of equations of state obtained from first-principle calculations in cold and dense QCD and constrained by observational data. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 José C. Jiménez , Eduardo S. Fraga

Dark matter admixed neutron stars provide a promising avenue for observationally probing the dark matter characteristic. In this study, we examine non-radial oscillations in neutron stars containing self-interacting dark matter, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Hajime Sotani , Ankit Kumar

One of the primary science goals of the next generation of hard X-ray timing instruments is to determine the equation of state of the matter at supranuclear densities inside neutron stars, by measuring the radius of neutron stars with…