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We have conducted an extensive study using a diverse set of equations of state (EoSs) to uncover strong relationships between neutron star (NS) observables and the underlying EoS parameters using symbolic regression method. These EoS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 N. K. Patra , Tuhin Malik , Helena Pais , Kai Zhou , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

Gravitational-wave measurements of the tidal deformability in neutron-star binary coalescences can be used to infer the still unknown equation of state (EoS) of dense matter above the nuclear saturation density. By employing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Costantino Pacilio , Andrea Maselli , Margherita Fasano , Paolo Pani

Recently exploratory studies were performed on the possibility of constraining the neutron star equation of state (EOS) using signals from coalescing binary neutron stars, or neutron star-black hole systems, as they will be seen in upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-05 Michalis Agathos , Jeroen Meidam , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Marco Tompitak , John Veitch , Salvatore Vitale , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy opens up an entirely new window on the Universe to probe the equations of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter. With the advent of next generation GW detectors, measuring the gravitational radiation from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-08 F. J. Fattoyev , W. G. Newton , Bao-An Li

Based on the distribution of tidal deformabilities and component masses of binary neutron star merger GW170817, the parametric equation of states (EOS) are employed to probe the nuclear symmetry energy and the properties of neutron star. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-22 Yuxi Li , Houyuan Chen , Dehua Wen , Jing Zhang

Neutron stars (NSs) probe the high-density regime of the nuclear equation of state (EOS). However, inferring the EOS from observations of NSs is a computationally challenging task. In this work, we efficiently solve this inverse problem by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Thibeau Wouters , Peter T. H. Pang , Hauke Koehn , Henrik Rose , Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

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

The EOS of strongly interacting matter at densities ten to fifteen orders of magnitude larger than the typical density of terrestrial macroscopic objects determines a number of neutron star properties, including the pattern of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Benhar

The recent direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers (2016, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, no. 6, 061102; no. 24, 241103) opens up an entirely new non-electromagnetic window into the Universe making it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

We use a Bayesian inference analysis to explore the sensitivity of Taylor expansion parameters of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) to the neutron star dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) on 1 to 2 solar masses neutron stars. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , Pawel Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

Neutron star tidal deformability extracted from gravitational wave data provides a novel probe to the interior neutron star structures and the associated nuclear equation of state (EOS). Instead of the popular composition of nucleons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 W. Z. Shangguan , Z. Q. Huang , S. N. Wei , W. Z. Jiang

We perform a systematic assessment of models for the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter in the context of recent neutron star mass and radius measurements to obtain a broad picture of the structure of neutron stars. We demonstrate that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-27 Andrew W. Steiner , Stefano Gandolfi , Farrukh J. Fattoyev , William G. Newton

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available. To constrain the…

In this work we discuss the time-evolution of nonspherical perturbations of a nonrotating neutron star described by a realistic Equation of State (EOS). We analyze 10 different EOS for a large sample of neutron star models. Various kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

We examine the influence of the density dependence of the symmetry energy on several properties of neutron stars. In particular, we study the constraints set on the nuclear matter equation of state by the values of the tidal deformability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Constança Providência

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

In the late inspiral phase, gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers carry the imprint of the equation of state due to the tidally deformed structure of the components. If the stars contain solid crusts, then their shear modulus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-02 Bhaskar Biswas , Rana Nandi , Prasanta Char , Sukanta Bose

Gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron-star inspirals carry information on components' masses and tidal deformabilities, but not directly radii, which are measured by electromagnetic observations of neutron stars. To improve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Michał Bejger

We investigate whether measurements of the neutron star mass and radius or the tidal deformability can provide information about the presence of hyperons inside a neutron star. This is achieved by considering two inference models, with and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Chun Huang , Laura Tolos , Constança Providência , Anna Watts

We investigate the constraints on the neutron star equation of state (EoS) and nuclear properties achievable with third-generation gravitational wave detectors using the Fisher information matrix approach within the relativistic mean field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhenyu Zhu , Richard O'Shaughnessy