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General relativity guarantees a unique one-to-one correspondence between static observables of neutron stars (NSs) accessible by multi-messenger astronomy, such as mass-radius or tidal deformability, and the equation of state (EoS) of beta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Chiranjib Mondal , Francesca Gulminelli

In the past decades, several neutron stars (NSs), particularly pulsars, with mass $M>2M_\odot$ have been observed. On the other hand, the existence of massive white dwarfs (WDs), even violating Chandrasekhar mass-limit, was inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Mayusree Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We study boson stars in a theory of complex scalar field coupled to Einstein gravity with the potential: $V(|\Phi|) := m^{2} |\Phi|^2 +2 \lambda |\Phi|$ (where $m^2$ and $\lambda$ are positive constant parameters). This could be considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We study the structure of neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories for the nonminimal coupling of the form $(1+\kappa \xi \phi^{2})\cal R$. We solve the hydrostatic equilibrium equations for two different types of scalar field potentials and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Savaş Arapoğlu , K. Yavuz Ekşi , A. Emrah Yükselci

We investigate the equation of state (EOS) of hyperonic neutron star (NS) matter within a density-dependent relativistic mean-field (DDRMF) framework. The effects of scalar, vector, and mixed density dependencies in meson-baryon couplings…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Aprajita Shrivastava , Prasanta Char , Sakshi Gautam , Sarmistha Banik

Compact stars (CS) are stellar remnants of massive stars. Inside CSs the density is so high that matter is in subatomic form composed of nucleons. With increase of density of matter towards the centre of the objects other degrees of freedom…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 Anil Kumar , Vivek Baruah Thapa , Monika Sinha

We study spherically symmetric nontopological soliton stars (NTS stars) numerically in the coupled system of a complex scalar field, a U(1) gauge field, a complex Higgs scalar field, and Einstein gravity, where the symmetry is broken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Yota Endo , Hideki Ishihara , Tatsuya Ogawa

We present a brief review of general results about non-rotating neutron stars in simple R-square gravity and its extension with a scalar axion field. Modified Einstein equations are presented for metrics in isotropical coordinates. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Artyom V. Astashenok , Sergei D. Odintsov

The possible existence of $\Delta$ resonances is inspected in the cold dense matter of neutron star (NS) core in presence of the hyperons. The diverse effects of variation in $\Delta$ mass on their formation and the equation of state (EoS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 Debashree Sen

We investigate neutron star solutions in scalar-tensor theories of gravity with first-order derivative self-interactions in the action and in the matter coupling. We assess the robustness of the kinetic screening mechanism present in these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Guillermo Lara , Miguel Bezares , Marco Crisostomi , Enrico Barausse

In this paper, we examine neutron star structure in perturbative $f(R)$ gravity models with realistic equation of state. We obtain mass-radius relations in two gravity models of the form $f_{1}(R)=R+ \alpha R(e^{-R/R_0}-1)$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-22 K Nobleson , Amna Ali , Sarmistha Banik

We investigate the effects, stability, and nonlinear dynamics of ghost scalar matter modeled as a field with a negative kinetic term confined within the cores of neutron stars. To this end, we analyze static configurations of the coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Argelia Bernal , Víctor Jaramillo , Néstor A. Montiel-Hernández , Darío Núñez , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

The spontaneous scalarization during the stellar core collapse in the massive scalar-tensor theories of gravity introduces extra polarizations (on top of the plus and cross modes) in gravitational waves, whose amplitudes are determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Da Huang , Chao-Qiang Geng , Hao-Jui Kuan

The stochastic background of gravitational wave signals arising from the core-collapse supernovae is produced through various complex mechanisms that need detailed and careful investigation. We proposed a simplified multi-peak waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We discuss the Mass -Radius diagram for static neutron star models obtained by the numerical solution of modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations in $f(R)$ gravity where the Lagrangians $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2 (1+\gamma R)$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Ruben Farinelli , Sergei D. Odintsov

We review particle-like configurations of complex scalar field, localized by gravity, so-called boson stars. In the simplest case, these solutions posses spherical symmetry, they may arise in the massive Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-14 Yakov Shnir

We investigate the gravitational Higgs mechanism in the inspiraling scalarized neutron star - white dwarf (NS-WD) binaries, whose dynamics are described by the scalar-tensor theory. Because of the difference in binding energy of NS and WD,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-05 Jing Wang

In this work, we investigate neutron stars (NSs) in the strong field regime within the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity, considering three representative models: linear, logarithmic, and exponential. While Bayesian studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Sneha Pradhan , N. K. Patra , Kai Zhou , P. K. Sahoo

The extraordinary energetic activity of magnetars is usually explained in terms of dissipation of a huge internal magnetic field of the order of $10^{15-16}$G. How such a strong magnetic field can originate during the formation of a neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 A. G. Pili , N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

With the continuous upgrade of detectors, more and more gravitational wave (GW) events were captured by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC), which offers a new avenue to test General Relativity and explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Rui Niu , Xing Zhang , Bo Wang , Wen Zhao