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The equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter is a central open problem in nuclear astrophysics. Its inference is hindered by the lack of \textit{ab initio} control above about twice nuclear saturation density, requiring extrapolation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Bhaskar Biswas

Nuclear theory and experiments, alongside astrophysical observations, constrain the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear-dense matter. Conversely, knowledge of the EOS allows an improved interpretation of nuclear or astrophysical data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Hauke Koehn , Thibeau Wouters , Henrik Rose , Peter T. H. Pang , Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews , Tim Dietrich

X-ray pulse profile modeling of PSR J0740+6620, the most massive known pulsar, with data from the NICER and XMM-Newton observatories recently led to a measurement of its radius. We investigate this measurement's implications for the neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-09 Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Reed Essick , Sophia Han , Philippe Landry

Traditional methods for determining the radius of a 1.4 $M_{\odot}$ neutron star ($R_{1.4}$) rely on specific equations of state (EOS) models that describe various types of dense nuclear matter. This dependence on EOS models can introduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Chun Huang

Simultaneous measurement of mass and radius with high precision is essential to unravel the equation of state of matter at the centre of neutron stars. Measurement of massive pulsars indicates that the equation of state has to be stiff at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Asim Kumar Saha , Ritam Mallick

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

The (re)analysis of data on the X-ray emitting pulsars PSR J0030+0451 and J0740+6620, as well as new results on PSR J0437-4715 and J1231-1411, are confronted with the predictions of the equation of state (EoS) models allowing for strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Mark Alford

We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030$+$0451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray spectral-timing event…

Pulse-profile modeling (PPM) of thermal X-ray emission from rotation-powered millisecond pulsars enables simultaneous constraints on the mass $M$, radius $R$, and hence the equation of state of cold, dense matter. However, Bayesian PPM has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Tianzhe Zhou , Chun Huang

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

In this paper, we present an inference method for determining neutron star parameters and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EOS) using the RIFT parameter inference engine. We incorporate externally-produced prior information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Askold Vilkha , Anjali Yelikar , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Jocelyn Read

Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD), while valid only at densities exceeding those found in the cores of neutron stars, could provide constraints on the dense-matter equation of state (EOS). In this work, we examine the impact of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Eliot Finch , Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Reed Essick , Sophia Han , Philippe Landry

Four neutron star radius measurements have already been obtained by modeling the X-ray pulses of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER). We report here the radius measurement…

Using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) for the core of neutron stars (NSs) within the Bayesian statistical approach, we infer the EOS parameters of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter from three sets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-07 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

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

We present a physics-informed Bayesian neural-network framework to infer neutron-star equations of state from theoretical priors and to propagate the associated uncertainties to stellar observables. Trained on a large and representative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 J. D. Baker , C. A. Bertulani , R. V. Lobato

Differences in the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter translate into differences in astrophysical simulations and their multi-messenger signatures. Thus, extending the number of EOSs for astrophysical simulations allows us to probe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 A. S. Schneider , C. Constantinou , B. Muccioli , M. Prakash

We present a simulation-based inference (SBI) framework to constrain the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) from astrophysical observations of masses, radii and tidal deformabilities, using Neural posterior estimation (NPE) with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Valéria Carvalho , Márcio Ferreira , Michał Bejger , Constança Providência