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A metamodeling for the nucleonic equation of state (EOS), inspired from a Taylor expansion around the saturation density of symmetric nuclear matter, is proposed and parameterized in terms of the empirical parameters. The present knowledge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 J. Margueron , R. Hoffmann Casali , F. Gulminelli

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Sunny Ng , Isaac Legred , Lami Suleiman , Philippe Landry , Lyla Traylor , Jocelyn Read

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

Probing properties of neutron stars from photometric observations of these objects helps us answer crucial questions at the forefront of multi-messenger astronomy, such as, what is behavior of highest density matter in extreme environments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Abu Bucker Siddik , Diane Oyen , Soumi De , Greg Olmschenk , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We search for possible correlations between neutron star observables and thermodynamic quantities that characterize high density nuclear matter. We generate a set of model-independent equations of state describing stellar matter from a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Márcio Ferreira , M. Fortin , Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

Measurements of neutron star mass and radius or tidal deformability deliver unique insight into the equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter. EOS inference is very often done using generalized parametric or non-parametric models which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Chun Huang , Geert Raaijmakers , Anna L. Watts , Laura Tolos , Constança Providência

We develop a semi-supervised variational autoencoder (SSVAE) framework to reconstruct and generate neutron star (NS) equations of state (EOS). The SSVAE consists of an encoder network that maps high-dimensional EOS data into a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Tianqi Zhao , Fanglida Yan , Alex Ross , James M. Lattimer

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

It is shown how the Equation of State (EoS) depends on nucleon properties inside Nuclear Matter (NM). We propose to benefit from the concept of enthalpy in order to include volume corrections to the nucleon rest energy, which are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-28 Jacek Rożynek

The wide range of nuclear densities achieved in neutron stars makes them probes of dense nuclear behavior in the form of the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Studying neutron stars both in isolation, with X-ray measurements and pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Atul Kedia , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Leslie Wade , Anjali Yelikar

We discuss deep learning inference for the neutron star equation of state (EoS) using the real observational data of the mass and the radius. We make a quantitative comparison between the conventional polynomial regression and the neural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-14 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Koichi Murase

We exploit the great potential offered by Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) to directly decipher the internal composition of neutron stars (NSs) based on their macroscopic properties. By analyzing a set of simulated observations, namely NS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Valéria Carvalho , Márcio Ferreira , Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), present a unique opportunity to put constraints on dense matter, among many other groundbreaking scientific goals. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Mancarella , Chiranjib Mondal , Anna Puecher , Tim Dietrich , Francesca Gulminelli , Michele Maggiore , Micaela Oertel

Nuclear metamodels - phenomenological parametrizations of the energy of nuclear matter - are convenient tools to explore the space of realistic neutron star configurations constrained by astrophysical and nuclear data. While much recent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Gabriele Montefusco , Marco Antonelli , Francesca Gulminelli

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

In recent years, a lot of work was done that has revealed some very interesting properties of neutron stars. One can relate the first few multipole moments of a neutron star, or quantities that can be derived from them, with relations that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-03 George Pappas

We develop a new nonparametric method to reconstruct the Equation of State (EoS) of Neutron Star with multimessenger data. As an universal function approximator, the Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) with one hidden layer and a sigmoidal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Ming-Zhe Han , Jin-Liang Jiang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yi-Zhong Fan

Neutron stars (NS) are compact objects with strong gravitational fields, and a matter composition subject to extreme physical conditions. The properties of strongly interacting matter at ultra-high densities and temperatures impose a big…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 R. V. Lobato , E. V. Chimanski , C. A. Bertulani

Neutron stars provide a natural laboratory for studying the properties of dense nuclear matter under extreme conditions. In this proceeding, we review our current understanding of dense isospin symmetric and asymmetric matter and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Rajesh Kumar , Veronica Dexheimer , Johannes Jahan

Neutron stars are regarded as natural laboratories for the study of dense strong interaction matter. The equation of state (EoS) of dense matter computed in flat spacetime is used to predict the structure of neutron stars by solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 Jianing Li , Tao Guo , Jiaxing Zhao , Lianyi He