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The last few years have seen tremendous progress in the observation of the global properties of neutron stars (NSs), e.g. masses, radii and tidal deformabilities. Such properties provide information about possible phase transitions in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Rahul Somasundaram , Jérôme Margueron

The central speed of sound (SS) measures the stiffness of the Equation of State (EOS) of superdense neutron star (NS) matter. Its variations with density and radial coordinate in NSs in conventional analyses often suffer from uncertainties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-28 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , Zhen Zhang

Gaussian processes provide a promising framework by which to extrapolate the equation of state (EoS) of cold, catalyzed matter beyond $1-2$ times nuclear saturation density. Here we discuss how to extend Gaussian processes to include…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 Debora Mroczek , M. Coleman Miller , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Nicolas Yunes

The equation of state (EoS) of the neutron star (NS) matter remains an enigma. In this work we perform the Bayesian parameter inference with the gravitational wave data (GW170817) and mass-radius observations of some NSs (PSR J0030+0451,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Shao-Peng Tang , Jin-Liang Jiang , Wei-Hong Gao , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The general behavior of the nuclear equation of state (EOS), relevant for the description of neutron stars (NS), is studied within a relativistic mean field description of nuclear matter. Different formulations, both with density dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Constança Providência , Tuhin Malik , Milena Bastos Albino , Márcio Ferreira

The speed of sound is a novel probe of equation of state and phase transitions in dense cores of neutron stars. Recently nuclear experiments extracted a surprising thick neutron skin of $^{208}$Pb, causing tensions to reproduce the tidal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Manjia Chen , Dawei Guan , Chongji Jiang , Junchen Pei

The low density nuclear matter equation of state is strongly constrained by nuclear properties, however, for constraining the high density equation of state it is necessary to resort to indirect information obtained from the observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

Understanding the existence of exotic matter phases and phase transitions within the core of neutron stars is crucial to advancing our knowledge of cold-dense matter physics. Recent multi-messenger observations, including gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Chun Huang , Shashwat Sourav

We study current bounds on strong first-order phase transitions (PTs) along the equation of state (EOS) of dense strongly interacting matter in neutron stars, under the simplifying assumption that on either side of the PT the EOS can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Tyler Gorda , Kai Hebeler , Aleksi Kurkela , Achim Schwenk , Aleksi Vuorinen

First results from a fully self-consistent, temperature-dependent equation of state that spans the whole density range of neutron stars and supernova cores are presented. The equation of state (EoS) is calculated using a mean-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. G. Newton , J. R. Stone , A. Mezzacappa

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

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

Because of the development of many-body theories of nuclear matter, the long-standing, open problem of the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter may be understood in the near future through the confrontation of theoretical calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 A. Li , Z. -Y. Zhu , E. -P. Zhou , J. -M. Dong , J. -N. Hu , C. -J. Xia

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

Physics of the Equation of State (EoS) for proto-neutron star (PNS) concerns properties of neutron rich matter at finite temperature over wide range of densities. In this contribution we discuss the structure of PNS inner crust in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-28 Gang Shen

This paper explores radial and non-radial oscillations of protoneutron stars (PNSs) as they evolve from hot, neutrino-rich configurations through deleptonization to cold, catalyzed states. The equation of state (EoS) is modeled using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Prashant Thakur , Adamu Issifu , Ishfaq Ahmad Rather , Y. Lim , Tobias Frederico

We study the equation of state (EoS) of a neutron star (NS) accounting for new advances. In the low energy density, $n\leq 0.1 n_s$, with $n_s$ the saturation density, we use a new pure neutron matter EoS that is regulator independent and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 J. M. Alarcón , E. Lope-Oter , J. A. Oller

The accurate determination of the maximum mass of the neutron stars is one of the most important tasks in astrophysics. It is directly related to the identification of the black holes in the universe, the production of neutron stars from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-21 Ch. C. Moustakidis , T. Gaitanos , Ch. Margaritis , G. A. Lalazissis

We investigate the properties of nuclear matter at the first-order phase transitions such as liquid-gas phase transition and hadron-quark phase transition. As a general feature of the first-order phase transitions of matter consisting of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-10 Toshiki Maruyama , Nobutoshi Yasutake , Toshitaka Tatsumi

The general behavior of the nuclear equation of state (EOS), relevant for the description of neutron stars (NS), is studied within a Bayesian approach applied to a set of models based on a density dependent relativistic mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência