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Exploiting a very large library of physically plausible equations of state (EOSs) containing more than $10^{7}$ members and yielding more than $10^{9}$ stellar models, we conduct a survey of the impact that a neutron-star radius measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Lukas R. Weih , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

We determine the threshold mass for prompt (no bounce) black hole formation in equal-mass neutron star (NS) mergers using a new set of 227 numerical relativity simulations. We consider 23 phenomenological and microphysical finite…

Starting from a realistic constituent quark model for the nucleon-nucleon interaction, we derive the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter within the Bethe-Brueckner-Goldstone approach up to three-hole-line level, without need to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 K. Fukukawa , M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio , L. Lo Monaco , H. -J. Schulze

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter plays an important role in the supernova phenomenon, the structure of neutron stars, and in the mergers of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes). During the collapse phase of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 James M. Lattimer , Madappa Prakash

Neutron stars provide a unique laboratory for studying matter at extreme pressures and densities. While there is no direct way to explore their interior structure, X-rays emitted from these stars can indirectly provide clues to the equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Delaney Farrell , Pierre Baldi , Jordan Ott , Aishik Ghosh , Andrew W. Steiner , Atharva Kavitkar , Lee Lindblom , Daniel Whiteson , Fridolin Weber

A pure nucleonic equation of state (EoS) for beta equilibrated charge neutral neutron star (NS) matter is determined using density dependent effective NN interaction. This EoS is found to satisfy both the constraints from the observed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-11 Partha Roy Chowdhury

Differences in the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter translate into differences in astrophysical simulations and their multi-messenger signatures. Thus, extending the number of EOSs for astrophysical simulations allows us to probe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 A. S. Schneider , C. Constantinou , B. Muccioli , M. Prakash

The radius $R_{1.4}$ of neutron stars (NSs) with a mass of 1.4 M$_{\odot}$ has been extracted consistently in many recent studies in the literature. Using representative $R_{1.4}$ data, we infer high-density nuclear symmetry energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

We report a new microscopic equation of state (EOS) of dense symmetric nuclear matter, pure neutron matter, and asymmetric and $\beta$-stable nuclear matter at zero temperature using recent realistic two-body and three-body nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Ignazio Bombaci , Domenico Logoteta

We investigate dense-matter equations of state (EOSs) within a Bayesian framework, with particular emphasis on whether recent small-radius compact-star candidates can be accommodated in a twin-star scenario. For the hadronic sector, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Xieyuan Dong , Hong Shen , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang

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

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

A central open problem in nuclear physics is the determination of a physically robust equation of state (EoS) for dense nuclear matter, which directly informs our understanding of the internal composition and macroscopic properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 I. Stergakis , Th. Diakonidis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Neutron stars (NSs) are excellent natural laboratories to constrain gravity on strong field regime and nuclear matter in extreme conditions. Motivated by the recent discovery of a compact object with $2.59^{+0.08}_{-0.09} M_\odot$ in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-07 Rafael C. Nunes , Jaziel G. Coelho , José C. N. de Araujo

The modeling of many neutron star observables incorporates the microphysics of both the stellar crust and core, which is tied intimately to the properties of the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS). We explore the predictions of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 W. G. Newton , M. Gearheart , De-Hua Wen , Bao-An Li

We show that the odds of the mass-gap (secondary) object in GW190814 being a neutron star (NS) improve if one allows for a stiff high-density equation of state (EoS) or a large spin. Since its mass is $\in (2.50,2.67) M_{\odot}$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-15 Bhaskar Biswas , Rana Nandi , Prasanta Char , Sukanta Bose , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The increasing richness of data related to cold dense matter, from laboratory experiments to neutron-star observations, requires a framework for constraining the properties of such matter that makes use of all relevant information. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Coleman Miller , Cecilia Chirenti , Frederick K. Lamb

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

The equation of state (EOS) of infinite nuclear matter with a small proton/neutron fraction is a crucial input to determine the properties of neutron stars and compare model predictions to astronomical observations. The so-called `symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 C. A. Bertulani , J. Valencia

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter is an essential ingredient for numerical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. The properties of matter near and above nuclear saturation density are uncertain, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Andre da Silva Schneider , Luke F. Roberts , Christian D. Ott