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Over the past decade, an abundance of information from neutron-star observations, nuclear experiments and theory has transformed our efforts to elucidate the properties of dense matter. However, at high densities relevant to the cores of…

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Within the parameter space of equation of state (EOS) of dense neutron-rich matter limited by existing constraints mainly from terrestrial nuclear experiments, we investigate how the neutron star maximum mass $M_{\rm{max}}>2.01\pm0.04$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li , Jun Xu

Traditional methods for determining the radius of a 1.4 $M_{\odot}$ neutron star ($R_{1.4}$) rely on specific equations of state (EOS) models that describe various types of dense nuclear matter. This dependence on EOS models can introduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Chun Huang

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 perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

In this work, we investigate the impact of the possibility of a small, subsolar mass compact star, such as the recently reported central compact object of HESS J1731-347, on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars. We have used a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Prasanta Char , Bhaskar Biswas

Simultaneous measurement of mass and radius with high precision is essential to unravel the equation of state of matter at the centre of neutron stars. Measurement of massive pulsars indicates that the equation of state has to be stiff at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Asim Kumar Saha , Ritam Mallick

The observations of optical and near-infrared counterparts of binary neutron star mergers not only enrich our knowledge about the abundance of heavy elements in the Universe, or help reveal the remnant object just after the merger as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Zhenyu Zhu , Ang Li , Tong Liu

Given an Equation of State (EOS) for neutron star (NS) matter, there is a unique mass-radius sequence characterized by a maximum mass $M_{\rm{NS}}^{\max}$ at radius $R_{\max}$. We first show analytically that the $M_{\rm{NS}}^{\max}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-27 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , Zhen Zhang

Future high-precision X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars (NSs) are expected to constrain NS radii with uncertainties as small as $\sigma \simeq 0.1$~km. Such unprecedented precision offers a unique opportunity to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Bao-An Li , Xavier Grundler , Wen-Jie Xie , Nai-Bo Zhang

We explore the implications of the recent radius determination of PSR J0740+6620 by the NICER experiment combined with the neutron skin measurement by the PREX-II experiment and the associated inference of the slope of symmetry energy, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-23 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , 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

Pulse profile modeling of X-ray data from NICER is now enabling precision inference of neutron star mass and radius. Combined with nuclear physics constraints from chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT), and masses and tidal…

The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interactions, the availability of experiments probing nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-29 Agnieszka Sorensen , Kshitij Agarwal , Kyle W. Brown , Zbigniew Chajęcki , Paweł Danielewicz , Christian Drischler , Stefano Gandolfi , Jeremy W. Holt , Matthias Kaminski , Che-Ming Ko , Rohit Kumar , Bao-An Li , William G. Lynch , Alan B. McIntosh , William G. Newton , Scott Pratt , Oleh Savchuk , Maria Stefaniak , Ingo Tews , ManYee Betty Tsang , Ramona Vogt , Hermann Wolter , Hanna Zbroszczyk , Navid Abbasi , Jörg Aichelin , Anton Andronic , Steffen A. Bass , Francesco Becattini , David Blaschke , Marcus Bleicher , Christoph Blume , Elena Bratkovskaya , B. Alex Brown , David A. Brown , Alberto Camaiani , Giovanni Casini , Katerina Chatziioannou , Abdelouahad Chbihi , Maria Colonna , Mircea Dan Cozma , Veronica Dexheimer , Xin Dong , Travis Dore , Lipei Du , José A. Dueñas , Hannah Elfner , Wojciech Florkowski , Yuki Fujimoto , Richard J. Furnstahl , Alexandra Gade , Tetyana Galatyuk , Charles Gale , Frank Geurts , Fabiana Gramegna , Sašo Grozdanov , Kris Hagel , Steven P. Harris , Wick Haxton , Ulrich Heinz , Michal P. Heller , Or Hen , Heiko Hergert , Norbert Herrmann , Huan Zhong Huang , Xu-Guang Huang , Natsumi Ikeno , Gabriele Inghirami , Jakub Jankowski , Jiangyong Jia , José C. Jiménez , Joseph Kapusta , Behruz Kardan , Iurii Karpenko , Declan Keane , Dmitri Kharzeev , Andrej Kugler , Arnaud Le Fèvre , Dean Lee , Hong Liu , Michael A. Lisa , William J. Llope , Ivano Lombardo , Manuel Lorenz , Tommaso Marchi , Larry McLerran , Ulrich Mosel , Anton Motornenko , Berndt Müller , Paolo Napolitani , Joseph B. Natowitz , Witold Nazarewicz , Jorge Noronha , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Grażyna Odyniec , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Zuzana Paulínyová , Jorge Piekarewicz , Robert D. Pisarski , Christopher Plumberg , Madappa Prakash , Jørgen Randrup , Claudia Ratti , Peter Rau , Sanjay Reddy , Hans-Rudolf Schmidt , Paolo Russotto , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Andreas Schäfer , Björn Schenke , Srimoyee Sen , Peter Senger , Richard Seto , Chun Shen , Bradley Sherrill , Mayank Singh , Vladimir Skokov , Michał Spaliński , Jan Steinheimer , Mikhail Stephanov , Joachim Stroth , Christian Sturm , Kai-Jia Sun , Aihong Tang , Giorgio Torrieri , Wolfgang Trautmann , Giuseppe Verde , Volodymyr Vovchenko , Ryoichi Wada , Fuqiang Wang , Gang Wang , Klaus Werner , Nu Xu , Zhangbu Xu , Ho-Ung Yee , Sherry Yennello , Yi Yin

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

Recent astrophysical mass inferences of compact stars HESS J1731-347 and PSR J0952-0607, with extremely small and large masses respectively, as well as the measurement of the neutron skin of Ca in the CREX experiment challenge and constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Mark Alford

The maximum mass of a nonrotating neutron star, $M_{\rm TOV}$, plays a very important role in deciphering the structure and composition of neutron stars and in revealing the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter. Although with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla

The Equation of State (EOS) of dense strongly-interacting matter can be probed by astrophysical observations of neutron stars (NS), such as X-ray detections of pulsars or the measurement of the tidal deformability of NSs during the inspiral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Maximiliano Ujevic , Rahul Somasundaram , Tim Dietrich , Jerome Margueron , Ingo Tews

In this proceeding, we have presented some highlight results on the constraints of the nuclear matter equation of state (EOS) from the data of nucleus resonance and neutron-skin thickness using the Bayesian approach based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-08 Jun Xu

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen