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The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

The compact object with a mass of $2.50-2.67~M_\odot$ observed by LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations in GW190814, as well as the recent report of a light compact object with a mass and radius of $M=0.77^{+0.20}_{-0.17}M_{\odot}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu

The equation-of-state (EOS) parameter $\phi \equiv P/\varepsilon$, defined as the ratio of pressure to energy density, encapsulates the fundamental response of matter under extreme compression. Its value at the center of the most massive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , Yu-Gang Ma

A modified version of the density dependent covariant density functional model proposed in [T. Malik, M. Ferreira, B. K. Agrawal and C. Provid\^encia, ApJ 930, 17 (2022)] is employed in a Bayesian analysis to determine the equation of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Mikhail V. Beznogov , Adriana R. Raduta

We study the hadron-quark phase transition in the interior of neutron stars (NS's). We calculate the equation of state (EOS) of hadronic matter using the Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone formalism with realistic two-body and three-body forces, as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. F. Burgio , M. Baldo , H. -J. Schulze , P. K. Sahu

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

By numerically inverting the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equation using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nucleonic matter, a restricted EOS parameter space is established using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-18 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

The strong-field gravity in General Relativity (GR) realized in neutron stars (NSs) renders the Equation of State (EOS) $P(\varepsilon)$ of supradense neutron star (NS) matter to be essentially nonlinear and refines the upper bound for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li

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

We derive a new equation of state (EoS) for neutron stars (NS) from the outer crust to the core based on modern microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) calculations using the Argonne $v_{18}$ potential plus three-body forces computed with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-02 B. K. Sharma , M. Centelles , X. Vinas , M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio

Neutron stars and their mergers provide the highest-density regime in which Einstein's equations in full (with a matter source) can be tested against modified theories of gravity. But doing so requires a priori knowledge of the Equation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Eva Lope-Oter , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

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

The determination of the equation of state (EOS) for nuclear matter has been one of the biggest problems in nuclear astrophysics, because the EOS is essential for determining the properties of neutron stars. To constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Hajime Sotani , Nobuya Nishimura , Tomoya Naito

Understanding how matter behaves at the highest densities and temperatures is a major open problem in both nuclear physics and relativistic astrophysics. This physics is often encapsulated in the so-called high-temperature nuclear equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Mikhail M. Meskhi , Noah E. Wolfe , Zhenyu Dai , Carla Frohlich , Jonah M. Miller , Raymond K. W. Wong , Ricardo Vilalta

We construct tables of finite temperature equation of state (EoS) of hypernuclear matter in the range of densities, temperatures, and electron fractions that are needed for numerical simulations of supernovas, proto-neutron stars, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Stefanos Tsiopelas , Armen Sedrakian , Micaela Oertel

We investigate the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) by incorporating multi-messenger data of GW170817, PSR J0030+0451, PSR J0740+6620, and state-of-the-art theoretical progresses, including the information from chiral effective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-23 Ming-Zhe Han , Yong-Jia Huang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yi-Zhong Fan

Theoretical models of the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-star matter (starting with the crust and ending at the densest region of the stellar core) are reviewed. Apart from a broad set of baryonic EOSs, strange quark matter, and even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Haensel

A Bayesian method is used in this extensive work to generate a large set of minimally constrained equations of state (EOSs) for matters in neutron stars (NS). These EOSs are analyzed for their correlations with key NS properties, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. K. Patra

The high-density behavior of nuclear matter is analyzed within a relativistic mean-field description with non-linear meson interactions. To assess the model parameters and their output, a Bayesian inference technique is used. The Bayesian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , Milena Bastos Albino , Constança Providência

We obtain a mass function solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation for isotropic and spherically symmetric system via homotopy perturbation method (HPM). Using the mass function we construct a stellar model which can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-04 Abdul Aziz , Saibal Ray , Farook Rahaman , B. K. Guha