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One of the main goals of gravitational-wave astrophysics is to study gravity in the strong-field regime and constrain deviations from general relativity (GR). Any such deviation affects not only binary dynamics and gravitational-wave…

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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

Using an extended set of equations of state and a multiple-group multiple-code collaborative effort to generate waveforms, we improve numerical-relativity-based data-analysis estimates of the measurability of matter effects in neutron-star…

The constraints on tidal deformability $\Lambda$ of neutron stars are first extracted from GW170817 by LIGO and Virgo Collaborations but the relation between radius $R$ and tidal deformability $\Lambda$ is still nuder debate. Using an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bin Qi , Shou-Yu Wang

We introduce a parameterized high-density equation of state (EOS) in order to systematize the study of constraints placed by astrophysical observations on the nature of neutron-star matter. To obtain useful constraints, the number of…

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A principal goal of gravitational-wave astronomy is to constrain the neutron star equation of state (EOS) by measuring the tidal deformability of neutron stars. The tidally induced departure of the waveform from that of point-particle (or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-05 Eric D. Van Oeveren , John L. Friedman

We report a new microscopic equation of state (EOS) of dense symmetric nuclear matter, pure neutron matter, and asymmetric and $\beta$-stable nuclear matter at zero temperature using recent realistic two-body and three-body nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Ignazio Bombaci , Domenico Logoteta

Inference of the equation-of-state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter in neutron-star cores is a principal science goal of X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. In particular, gravitational-wave observations provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rahul Kashyap , Arnab Dhani , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

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

This study analyzes and contrasts different phenomenological methods used to model the nuclear equation of state (EOS) for neutron star matter based on covariant energy density functionals (CEDF). Using two complementary methodologies, we…

We perform a comprehensive Bayesian analysis to constrain the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) using a wide range of terrestrial and astrophysical data. The terrestrial inputs include quantities related to symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Sk Md Adil Imam , N. K. Patra

The low density nuclear matter equation of state is strongly constrained by nuclear properties, however, for constraining the high density equation of state it is necessary to resort to indirect information obtained from the observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

Measurements of neutron star masses, radii, and tidal deformability have direct connections to nuclear physics via the equation of state (EoS), which for the cold, catalyzed matter in neutron star cores is commonly represented as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Debora Mroczek , M. Coleman Miller , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Nicolas Yunes

Observations of neutron stars (NSs) by the LIGO-Virgo and NICER collaborations have provided reasonably precise measurements of their various macroscopic properties. In this paper, we employ a Bayesian framework to combine them and place…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Bhaskar Biswas , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi , Sukanta Bose

We develop a density-dependent quark mean-field (DDQMF) model to study the properties of nuclear matter and neutron stars, where the coupling strength between $\sigma$ meson and nucleon is generated by the degree of freedom of quarks, while…

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At present, the only experimental access to the properties of cold, dense strongly interacting matter is provided by astrophysical observations. Neutron stars are the only known systems in the Universe that reach densities several times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Gábor Kasza , János Takátsy , György Wolf

Properties of neutron stars in GW170817 are investigated using different equations of state (EoS) involving nucleons, $\Lambda$ hyperons, quarks resulting in $2M_{\odot}$ neutron stars. This calculation is performed using the same EoS for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-02 Sajad A. Bhat , Debades Bandyopadhyay

We perform a Bayesian analysis of the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) based on a wide set of Skyrme functionals, derived from previous nuclear physics inferences. The novelty of this approach lies in starting from the full…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-15 Pietro Klausner , Marco Antonelli , Francesca Gulminelli

The dense matter equation of state (EOS) determines neutron star (NS) structure but can be calculated reliably only up to one to two times the nuclear saturation density, using accurate many-body methods that employ nuclear interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-27 Ingo Tews , Joseph Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Sanjay Reddy