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The properties of neutron stars are determined by the nature of the matter that they contain. These properties can be constrained by measurements of the star's size. We obtain stringent constraints on neutron-star radii by combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Collin D. Capano , Ingo Tews , Stephanie M. Brown , Ben Margalit , Soumi De , Sumit Kumar , Duncan A. Brown , Badri Krishnan , Sanjay Reddy

Measurement of macroscopic properties of neutron stars, whether in binary or in an isolated system, provides us a key opportunity to place a stringent constraint on its equation of state. In this paper, we perform Bayesian model-selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-28 Bhaskar Biswas

In this work, we propose a meta-modelling technique to nuclear matter on the basis of a relativistic density functional with density-dependent couplings. Identical density dependence for the couplings both in the isoscalar and isovector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Prasanta Char , Chiranjib Mondal , Francesca Gulminelli , Micaela Oertel

Combining the GW observations of merging systems of binary neutron stars and quasi-universal relations, we set constraints on the maximum mass that can be attained by nonrotating stellar models of neutron stars. More specifically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-06 Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih

Braneworld models with variable brane tension $\lambda $ introduce a new degree of freedom that allows for evolving gravitational and cosmological constants, the latter being a natural candidate for dark energy. We consider a thermodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 K. C. Wong , K. S. Cheng , T. Harko

We investigate constraints on neutron star structure arising from the assumptions that neutron stars have crusts, that recent calculations of pure neutron matter limit the equation of state of neutron star matter near the nuclear saturation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 A. W. Steiner , J. M. Lattimer , E. F. Brown

We address the question of the role of low-energy nuclear physics data in constraining neutron star global properties, e.g., masses, radii, angular momentum, and tidal deformability, in the absence of a phase transition in dense matter. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Brett V. Carlson , Mariana Dutra , Odilon Lourenço , Jérôme Margueron

The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical systematics compared to neutron star radius measurements with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Zack Carson , Andrew W. Steiner , Kent Yagi

We investigate the constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars by considering the tidal deformability in the merge of neutron star binaries. In order to extract the most reliable range of uncertainty from theory, we employ models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Young-Min Kim , Yeunhwan Lim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

Braneworld models have been proposed as a possible solution to the problem of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The idea is to dispense the dark energy (DE) and drive the late-time cosmic acceleration with a five-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Miguel A. Garcia-Aspeitia , A. Hernandez-Almada , Juan Magaña , Mario H. Amante , V. Motta , C. Martínez-Robles

We calculate neutron star's moment of inertia and deformabilities using various microscopic equations of state for nuclear and hybrid star configurations. Correlations between the various observables are examined and we confirm several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-28 J. -B. Wei , A. Figura , G. F. Burgio , H. Chen , H. -J. Schulze

In this contribution, we briefly present the equation-of-state modelling for application to neutron stars and discuss current constraints coming from nuclear physics theory and experiments. To assess the impact of model uncertainties, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

We use gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observations of GW170817 to constrain the extent of pressure anisotropy in it. While it is quite likely that the pressure inside a neutron star is mostly isotropic, certain physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Bhaskar Biswas , Sukanta Bose

Some observational constraints on the brane-world based on predictions from specific models in five dimensions, have been recently reported, both on local and cosmological scales. In order to identify the origins of these constraints, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Maia , E. M. Monte

Instead of parameterizing the pressure-density relation of a neutron star (NS), one can parameterize its macroscopic properties such as mass ($M$), radius ($R$), and dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) to infer the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Bhaskar Biswas , Sayak Datta

Braneworld models of dark energy are examined in the light of observations of high redshift type Ia supernovae. Braneworld models admit several novel and even exotic possibilities which include: (i) The effective equation of state of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni

Multi-messenger astronomical observations of neutron stars, together with more precise calculations and constraints coming from dense matter microphysics, are generating tension with regard to equations of state models used to describe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Mauro Mariani , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval

Brane-World models suggest modification of Newton's law of gravity on the 3-brane at submillimeter scales. The brane-world induced corrections are in higher powers of inverse distance and appear as additional terms with the Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Mofazzal Azam , M. Sami

A novel equation of state with the surface tension induced by particles' interactions was generalized to describe the properties of the neutron stars (NSs). In this equation the interaction between particles occurs via the hard core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-19 Violetta V. Sagun , Ilidio Lopes

We give a full nonlinear numerical treatment of time-dependent 5d braneworld geometry, which is determined self-consistently by potentials for the scalar field in the bulk and at two orbifold branes, supplemented by boundary conditions at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Johannes Martin , Gary N. Felder , Andrei V. Frolov , Marco Peloso , Lev Kofman