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Precision mass spectrometry of neutron-rich nuclei is of great relevance for astrophysics. Masses of exotic nuclides impose constraints on models for the nuclear interaction and thus affect the description of the equation of state of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-17 Susanne Kreim , Matthias Hempel , David Lunney , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

In this work we investigate the influence of neutron stars' crusts on the non-radial $g$-mode oscillations and examine their correlations with nuclear matter properties fixed by adopting 10 different relativistic density functionals. At…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Hao Sun , Jia-Xing Niu , Hong-Bo Li , Cheng-Jun Xia , Enping Zhou , Yiqiu Ma , Ying-Xun Zhang

A novel equation of state used for analysis of the heavy ion collision experimental data is generalized to also describe the matter inside neutron stars. This approach differs from others by including an induced surface tension caused by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 V. Sagun , I. Lopes , A. Ivanytskyi

We perform a systematic analysis of neutron star radius constraints from five quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries and examine how they depend on measurements of their distances and amounts of intervening absorbing material, as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-20 James M. Lattimer , Andrew W. Steiner

We develop a relativistic mean field (RMF) description of deformed nuclei with the pairing correlations in the BCS approximation. The treatment of the pairing correlations for nuclei with the Fermi surface being close to the threshold of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. S. Geng , H. Toki , S. Sugimoto , J. Meng

Neutron star properties depend on both nuclear physics and astrophysical processes, and thus observations of neutron stars offer constraints on both large-scale astrophysics and the behavior of cold, dense matter. In this study, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Jacob Golomb , Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Philippe Landry

The properties of strangeness neutron star are studied within relativistic mean-field (RMF) model via including a logarithmic interaction as a function of scalar meson field. This logarithmic interaction, named as the $\sigma$-cut…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-07 Ying Zhang , Jinniu Hu , Peng Liu

Phenomenological calculations of the properties of dense matter, such as relativistic mean-field theories, represent a pathway to predicting the microscopic and macroscopic properties of neutron stars. However, such theories do not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Legred , Liam Brodie , Alexander Haber , Reed Essick , Katerina Chatziioannou

Exotic non-spherical configurations of nuclei, known as ``pasta" phases, are expected to be present at the bottom of the inner crust of a neutron star. We study the properties of these configurations in catalyzed neutron stars within a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-17 H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

We address the question of the role of low-energy nuclear physics data in constraining neutron star global properties, e.g., masses, radii, angular momentum, and tidal deformability, in the absence of a phase transition in dense matter. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Brett V. Carlson , Mariana Dutra , Odilon Lourenço , Jérôme Margueron

We investigate nuclear pasta phases appearing in hot neutron-star matter based on the compressible liquid-drop model, where the matter consists of a dense liquid phase and a dilute gas phase separated by a sharp interface. The surface…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Jian Zhou , Junbo Pang , Hong Shen , Jinniu Hu

We study the influence of core-\textit{crust} transition pressure changes on the general dynamical properties of neutron star configurations. First we study the matching conditions in core-\textit{crust} transition pressure region, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-08 L. M. González-Romero , J. L. Blázquez-Salcedo

A comprehensive microscopic study of the properties of bulk matter at densities just below nuclear saturation $\rho_s = 2.5 \sim 10^{14}$ g cm$^{-3}$, zero and finite temperature and high neutron fraction, is outlined, and preliminary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 W. G. Newton

We study the effects of an elastic crust on the oscillation spectrum of superfluid neutron stars. Within the two fluid formalism, we consider Newtonian stellar models that include the relevant constituents of a mature neutron stars. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Passamonti , N. Andersson

Background: Theoretical approaches based on density functional theory provide the only tractable method to incorporate the wide range of densities and isospin asymmetries required to describe finite nuclei, infinite nuclear matter, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Wei-Chia Chen , J. Piekarewicz

The Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) theory is applied to the analysis of ground-state properties of Ne, Na, Cl and Ar isotopes. In particular, we study the recently established proton skin in Ar isotopes and neutron skin in Na isotopes as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Geng , H. Toki , A. Ozawa , J. Meng

The equilibrium properties of the outer crust of cold nonaccreting magnetars (i.e. neutron stars endowed with very strong magnetic fields) are studied using the latest experimental atomic mass data complemented with a microscopic atomic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-03 N. Chamel , R. L. Pavlov , L. M. Mihailov , Ch. J. Velchev , Zh. K. Stoyanov , Y. D. Mutafchieva , M. D. Ivanovich , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

We explore three different classes of relativistic approaches applied to the description of dense nuclear matter: a Walecka-type relativistic mean field model (RMF), an extension including an effective chiral potential (RMF-C) and a further…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-17 R. Somasundaram , J. Margueron , G. Chanfray , H. Hansen

The inner crust of a mature neutron star is composed of an elastic lattice of neutron-rich nuclei penetrated by free neutrons. These neutrons can flow relative to the crust once the star cools below the superfluid transition temperature. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 N. Andersson , B. Haskell , G. L. Comer , L. Samuelsson

Neutron star crustal matter, whose properties are relevant in many models aimed at explaining observed astrophysical phenomena, has so far always been studied using a mean field approach. In order to check the results obtained in this way,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-29 Nicola Bassan , Stefano Fantoni , Kevin E. Schmidt
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