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The measurements of the bulk properties of most isolated neutron stars (INSs) are challenging tasks. Tang et al. (2020) have developed a new method, based on the equation of state (EoS) of neutron star (NS) material constrained by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Chuan-Ning Luo , Shao-Peng Tang , Jing-Liang Jiang , Wei-Hong Gao , Da-Ming Wei

Numerous models of neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) exist based on different superdense-matter physics approaches. Nevertheless, some NS properties show universal (EoS-independent) relations. Here, we propose a novel class of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-02 Dmitry D. Ofengeim , Peter S. Shternin , Tsvi Piran

There is a growing interest in investigating modified theories of gravity, primarily, with the aim of explaining the universe's accelerated expansion, which has been confirmed by several independent observations. Compact objects, like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 K Nobleson , Tuhin Malik , Sarmistha Banik

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

Neutron stars provide an ideal theoretical framework for exploring fundamental physics when nuclear matter surpasses densities encountered within atomic nuclei. Despite their paramount importance, uncertainties in the equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-31 Grigorios Papigkiotis , Georgios Vardakas , Aristidis Likas , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Recent rapid progress in neutron-star (NS) observations offers great potential to constrain the properties of strongly interacting matter under the most extreme conditions. In order to fully exploit the current observational inputs and to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-17 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Evangelia Katerini , Aleksi Kurkela , Joonas Nättilä , Vasileios Paschalidis , Aleksi Vuorinen

Tidal deformability of a 1.4 $M_\odot$ neutron star provides a pivotal window into the physics of dense nuclear matter, bridging gravitational-wave(GW), electromagnetic observations and nuclear physics. In this work, we present a novel,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Chun Huang

We present calculations of quasiequilibrium sequences of irrotational binary neutron stars based on realistic equations of state (EOS) for the whole neutron star interior. Three realistic nuclear EOSs of various softness and based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-30 M. Bejger , D. Gondek-Rosinska , E. Gourgoulhon , P. Haensel , K. Taniguchi , J. L. Zdunik

Inasmuch as the hydrostatic structure of interior neutron stars uniquely depends on the equation of state (EOS), the inverse constraints on EOS from astrophysical observation have been important methods to reveal the properties of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Houyuan Chen , Dehua Wen , Na Zhang

Observations of gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron-star mergers, like GW170817, can be used to constrain the neutron-star equation of state (EoS). One method involves modeling the EoS and measuring the model parameters through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Matthew F. Carney , Leslie E. Wade , Burke S. Irwin

We contribute a publicly available set of tables and code to provide Equations of State (EoS) for matter at neutron star densities. Our EoSes are constrained only by input from hadron physics and fundamental principles, without feedback…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Eva Lope Oter , Andreas Windisch , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Mark Alford

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

The equation of state (EoS) of hot and dense matter is a fundamental input to describe static and dynamical properties of neutron stars, core-collapse supernovae and binary compact-star mergers. We review the current status of the EoS for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 G. Fiorella Burgio , Anthea F. Fantina

Recently, in Malik23, a dataset of several EoS for purely nucleonic stellar matter based on a non-linear RMF model prescription, and constrained to properties of nuclear matter, to state-of-the-art chiral effective field theory calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 Tuhin Malik , Helena Pais , Constança Providência

Recently, an instability due to the nonlinear coupling of p-modes to g-modes in tidally deformed neutron stars in coalescing binaries has been studied in some detail. The result is significant because it could influence the inspiral and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Yixiao Zhou , Fan Zhang

Neutron stars are unique testbeds for exploring the physics of strongly interacting matter in extreme regimes of density, temperature, and isospin that are not accessible anywhere else in the universe. The nature of neutron star matter can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Andreas Guerra Chaves , Tanja Hinderer

With an average density higher than the nuclear density, neutron stars (NS) provide a unique test-ground for nuclear physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and nuclear superfluidity. Determination of the fundamental interactions that govern…

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

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…

We study the effects of nuclear symmetry energy on the mass-radius relation and tidal deformability of neutron stars, considering the self-consistency of the equation of state (EOS). We first construct a set of unified EOSs based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-15 Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Shishao Bao , Hong Shen