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We develop a non-parametric method for inferring the universal neutron star (NS) equation of state (EOS) from gravitational wave (GW) observations. Many different possible realizations of the EOS are generated with a Gaussian process…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Philippe Landry , Reed Essick

With ongoing advancements in nuclear theory and experimentation, together with a growing body of neutron star (NS) observations, a wealth of information on the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities has become accessible.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Bhaskar Biswas , Stephan Rosswog

The recent fast growth of a population of millisecond pulsars with precisely measured mass provides an excellent opportunity to characterize these compact stars at an unprecedented level. This is because the stellar parameter values can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-16 Sudip Bhattacharyya , Ignazio Bombaci , Debades Bandyopadhyay , Arun V. Thampan , Domenico Logoteta

Modeling of X-ray pulse profiles from millisecond pulsars offers a promising method of inferring the mass-to-radius ratios of neutron stars. Recent observations with NICER resulted in measurements of radii for three neutron stars using this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-18 Tong Zhao , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Elif Beklen

In the last few years, NICER data has enabled mass and radius inferences for various pulsars, and thus shed light on the equation of state for dense nuclear matter. This is achieved through a technique called pulse profile modeling. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Mariska Hoogkamer , Yves Kini , Tuomo Salmi , Anna L. Watts , Johannes Buchner

Pulse profile modelling using X-ray data from NICER permits the inference of mass and radius for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. This in turn constrains the equation of state of cold dense matter. Previous studies indicate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Erik Bootsma , Serena Vinciguerra , Anna L. Watts , Yves Kini , Tuomo Salmi

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available. To constrain the…

In numerical simulations of core-collapse supernova and binary neutron stars mergers, information about the energetics and composition of matter is implemented via external tables covering the huge ranges of thermodynamic conditions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Adriana R. Raduta , Mikhail V. Beznogov

We construct posterior distributions of the equation of state (EoS) for matter beyond the inner crust of neutron stars by incorporating finite nuclei (FN) constraints within relativistic mean field models. These constraints are implemented…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik , Bijay K Agrawal

Pulse Profile Modeling (PPM), the technique used to infer mass, radius and geometric parameters for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars using data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), relies on relativistic…

The equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter is a key factor to determine the internal structure and properties of neutron stars. However, the EOS of high-density nuclear matter has great uncertainty mainly because the terrestrial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Zehan Wu , Dehua Wen

One of the primary goals of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)-like X-ray missions is to impose stringent constraints on the neutron star equation of state by precisely measuring their masses and radii. NICER has recently…

The equation of state (EoS) of the neutron star (NS) matter remains an enigma. In this work we perform the Bayesian parameter inference with the gravitational wave data (GW170817) and mass-radius observations of some NSs (PSR J0030+0451,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Shao-Peng Tang , Jin-Liang Jiang , Wei-Hong Gao , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The correlation of the tidal polarizabilities $\Lambda_1$-$\Lambda_2$ for GW170817 is predicted by combining dense-matter equations of state (EOSs) that satisfy nuclear physics constraints with the chirp mass and mass asymmetry for this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 I. Tews , J. Margueron , S. Reddy

We construct a combined model to incorporate neutron star (NS) mass measurements with electromagnetic mass-radius constraints and gravitational-wave observations using Bayesian inference. We use different mass distributions for three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-22 Mahmudul Hasan Anik , Andrew W. Steiner , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Bayesian model mixing (BMM) is a statistical technique that can combine constraints from different regions of an input space in a principled way. Here we extend our BMM framework for the equation of state (EOS) of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 A. C. Semposki , C. Drischler , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

We introduce a family of equations of state (EoS) for hybrid neutron star (NS) matter that is obtained by a two-zone parabolic interpolation between a soft hadronic EoS at low densities and a set of stiff quark matter EoS at high densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 A. Ayriyan , D. Blaschke , A. G. Grunfeld , D. Alvarez-Castillo , H. Grigorian , V. Abgaryan

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

In this contribution, we have made use of the contemporary equation of states (EOSs) for the complete neutron star structure, and confronted them with one particular glitch constrain for the crustal moment of inertia (MOI). We find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-21 A. Li , R. Wang

We explore constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter based on microscopic calculations up to nuclear densities and observations of neutron stars. In a previous work we showed that predictions based on modern nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-08 S. K. Greif , K. Hebeler , J. M. Lattimer , C. J. Pethick , A. Schwenk