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An extended set of binary neutron star (NS) merger simulations is performed with an approximative conformally flat treatment of general relativity to systematically investigate the influence of the nuclear equation of state (EoS), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Oechslin , H. -T. Janka , A. Marek

We study equal and unequal-mass neutron star mergers by means of new numerical relativity simulations in which the general relativistic hydrodynamics solver employs an algorithm that guarantees mass conservation across the refinement levels…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximiliano Ujevic , Bernd Bruegmann

We discuss three new equations of state (EOS) in core-collapse supernova simulations. The new EOS are based on the nuclear statistical equilibrium model of Hempel and Schaffner-Bielich (HS), which includes excluded volume effects and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-26 Matthias Hempel , Tobias Fischer , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich , Matthias Liebendörfer

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

The post-merger phase of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers encodes valuable information about the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear matter. Extracting this information from the analysis of the post-merger waveforms remains challenging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

Numerical simulations of neutron star mergers represent an essential step toward interpreting the full complexity of multimessenger observations and constraining the properties of supranuclear matter. Currently, simulations are limited by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-08 Isaac Legred , Yoonsoo Kim , Nils Deppe , Katerina Chatziioannou , Francois Foucart , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder

Neutron star properties, such as its mass, radius, and moment of inertia, are calculated by solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equations using the ring-diagram equation of state (EOS) obtained from realistic low-momentum NN…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 Huan Dong , T. T. S. Kuo , R. Machleidt

The late inspiral, merger, and ringdown of a black hole-neutron star (BHNS) system can provide information about the neutron-star equation of state (EOS). Candidate EOSs can be approximated by a parametrized piecewise-polytropic EOS above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Benjamin D. Lackey , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Patrick R. Brady , John L. Friedman

The dynamics in mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) systems depend sensitively on the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter. This has profound implications on the emission of gravitational waves (GWs) and the ejection of matter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Maximilian Jacobi , Federico Maria Guercilena , Sabrina Huth , Giacomo Ricigliano , Almudena Arcones , Achim Schwenk

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EOS). We present a new methodology for EOS inference with non-parametric Gaussian process (GP) priors, enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Nikhil Sarin , Hiranya V. Peiris , Daniel J. Mortlock , Justin Alsing , Samaya M. Nissanke , Stephen M. Feeney

We construct a new equation of state (EOS) for numerical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers based on an extended relativistic mean-field model with a small symmetry energy slope $L$, which is compatible with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Hong Shen , Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We obtain a mass function solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation for isotropic and spherically symmetric system via homotopy perturbation method (HPM). Using the mass function we construct a stellar model which can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-04 Abdul Aziz , Saibal Ray , Farook Rahaman , B. K. Guha

A new table of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) based on realistic nuclear potentials is constructed for core-collapse supernova numerical simulations. Adopting the EOS of uniform nuclear matter constructed by two of the present authors…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-23 H. Togashi , K. Nakazato , Y. Takehara , S. Yamamuro , H. Suzuki , M. Takano

Bayesian hierarchical inference of phenomenological parameterized neutron star equations of state (EoS) from multiple gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers is of fundamental importance in improving our understanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Anarya Ray , Michael Camilo , Jolien Creighton , Shaon Ghosh , Soichiro Morisaki

In this work, we revisit several thin-crust approximations presented in the literature and compare them with the exact solutions of the Tolman--Oppenheimer--Volkoff (TOV) equations. In addition, we employ three different equations of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 F. Köpp , J. E. Horvath , C. A. Z. Vasconcellos

The Equation of State (EoS) of strongly interacting cold and hot ultra-dense QCD matter remains a major challenge in the field of nuclear astrophysics. With the advancements in measurements of neutron star masses, radii, and tidal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-05 Shriya Soma , Lingxiao Wang , Shuzhe Shi , Horst Stöcker , Kai Zhou

Binary neutron star mergers provide a unique probe of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS) across a wide range of parameter space, from the zero-temperature EoS during the inspiral to the high-temperature EoS following the merger. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Carolyn Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis , Feryal Özel

Neutron stars can be regarded as natural laboratories that enable us to investigate nuclear matter properties under extreme conditions that are otherwise impossible to access in terrestrial experiments. Astrophysical observations of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Hyukjin Kwon , Kazuyuki Sekizawa

Models of neutron stars (NSs) with hyperon cores are constructed with an effective chiral model in mean-field approximation. The hyperon couplings are fixed by reproducing their experimentally determined binding energies. The impact of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-31 Debashree Sen , Kinjal Banerjee , T. K. Jha

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