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The equation of state (EOS) of nuclear dense matter plays a crucial role in many astrophysical phenomena associated with neutron stars (NSs). Fluid oscillations are one of the most fundamental properties therein. NSs support a family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Hong-Bo Li , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Renxin Xu

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

The strong interaction at low energy scales determines the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear matters in neutron stars (NSs). It is conjectured that the bulk dense matter may be composed of strangeons, which are quark clusters with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-06 Hong-Bo Li , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu , Rui Xu

The correlation of the tidal polarizabilities $\Lambda_1$-$\Lambda_2$ for GW170817 is predicted by combining dense-matter equations of state (EOSs) that satisfy nuclear physics constraints with the chirp mass and mass asymmetry for this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

Very recently the NICER collaboration has published the first-ever accurate measurement of mass and radius together for PSR J0030+0451, a nearby isolated quickly-rotating neutron star (NS). In this work we set the joint constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Jin-Liang Jiang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We compute the binding energy and angular momentum of a test-particle at the last stable circular orbit (LSO) on the equatorial plane around a general relativistic, rotating neutron star (NS). We present simple, analytic, but accurate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Federico Cipolletta , Christian Cherubini , Simonetta Filippi , Jorge A. Rueda , Remo Ruffini

Gravitational-wave observations in the near future may allow us to measure tidal deformabilities of neutron stars, which leads us to the understanding of physics at nuclear density. In principle, the gravitational waveform depends on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Kent Yagi

The unknown equation of state (EoS) of neutron stars (NSs) is puzzling because of rich non-perturbative effects of strong interaction there. A method to constrain the EoS by using the detected X-ray plateaus of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Shuang Du , Enping Zhou , Ren-Xin Xu

In the present paper we study the oscillations of fast rotating neutron stars with realistic equations of state (EoS) within the Cowling approximation. We derive improved empirical relations for gravitational wave asteroseismology with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-04 Daniela D. Doneva , Erich Gaertig , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Christian Krüger

The detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) systems and neutron star--black hole (NSBH) systems provide new insights into dense matter properties in extreme conditions and associated high-energy astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-22 Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

Functional forms of the neutron star Equation of State (EoS) are required to extract the viable EoS band from neutron star observations. Realistic nuclear EoS, containing deconfined quarks or hyperons, present nontrivial features in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Debora Mroczek

In this paper, we present results obtained from our recent studies on the location of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for binary neutron stars (BNSs) in several levels of post Newtonian (PN) approximations. We reach the following…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi , Takashi Nakamura

In this work, we investigate the neutron star structure in conservative $f(R, T)$ gravity with $f(R, T)=R+\lambda T$, where $\lambda$ denotes the matter--geometry coupling. The modified stellar structure equations are solved using realistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Premachand Mahapatra , Prasanta Kumar Das

With the remarkable advent of gravitational-wave astronomy, we have shed light on previously shrouded events: compact binary coalescences. Neutron stars are promising (and confirmed) sources of gravitational radiation and it proves timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Fabian Gittins

In this work, we investigate neutron stars (NSs) in the strong field regime within the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity, considering three representative models: linear, logarithmic, and exponential. While Bayesian studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Sneha Pradhan , N. K. Patra , Kai Zhou , P. K. Sahoo

We explore constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter based on microscopic calculations up to nuclear densities and observations of neutron stars. In a previous work we showed that predictions based on modern nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-08 S. K. Greif , K. Hebeler , J. M. Lattimer , C. J. Pethick , A. Schwenk

We investigate the behavior of curvature invariants for a large ensemble of neutron stars built with equations of state (EOSs) that satisfy constraints from nuclear theory and perturbative QCD, as well as measurements of neutron-star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Iván Garibay , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla

Using the measurements of tidal deformation in the binary neutron star (BNS) coalescences can obtain the information of redshifts of gravitational wave (GW) sources, and thus actually the cosmic expansion history can be investigated using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Shang-Jie Jin , Tian-Nuo Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We study how to extract information on the neutron star equation of state from the gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of a binary system composed of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. We use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

Determining the sound speed $c_s$ in compact stars is an important open question with numerous implications on the behaviour of matter at large densities and hence on gravitational-wave emission from neutron stars. To this scope, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Sinan Altiparmak , Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla