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The post-merger product of the first binary neutron star merger event detected in gravitational waves, GW170817, depends on neutron star equation of state (EoS) and is not well determined. We generally discuss the constraints one may pose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Bing Zhang

We investigate the upper mass limit predictions of the baryonic mass for static neutron stars in the context of $f(R)$ gravity. We use the most popular $f(R)$ gravity model, namely the $R^2$ gravity, and calculate the maximum baryon mass of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 A. V. Astashenok , S. Capozziello , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

We combine equation of state of dense matter up to twice nuclear saturation density ($n_{\rm sat}=0.16\, \text{fm}^{-3}$) obtained using chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT), and recent observations of neutron stars to gain insights…

It has been suggested in the literature that the sound velocity of the nuclear matter $v_s$ violates the so-called sound velocity bound $v_s \le c/\sqrt{3}$ at high density, where $c$ is the speed of light. In this paper, we revisit this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Shrijan Roy , Teruaki Suyama

Recent X-ray variability observations of accreting neutron stars may provide the first evidence for frame dragging effects around spinning relativistic objects. Motivated by this possibility and its implications for neutron-star structural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vassiliki Kalogera , Dimitrios Psaltis

The maximum mass limits of neutron stars in scalar-tensor gravity is discussed and compared with the limits set by general relativity. The limit is parametrized with respect to the combination of the nuclear saturation parameters and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-23 Hajime Sotani , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We show that the maximum and the minimum mass of merging neutron stars can be estimated with upcoming gravitational wave observations. We simulate populations of binary neutron star signals and model their mass distribution including upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

We investigate constraints on the high-density equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter by analyzing the probability distributions of the endpoints of mass-radius M(R) sequences within a Bayesian weighting framework. Starting from two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Gábor Kasza , György Wolf

A range of experimental results point to the existence of a massive neutrino. The recent high precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background and the large scale surveys of galaxies can be used to place an upper bound on this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 C. Zunckel , P. G Ferreira

The merger of binary neutron stars is likely to lead to differentially rotating remnants. In this paper we numerically construct models of differentially rotating neutron stars in general relativity and determine their maximum allowed mass.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Nicholas D. Lyford , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

We perform hydrodynamical simulations of neutron-star mergers for a large sample of temperature-dependent, nuclear equations of state, and determine the threshold mass above which the merger remnant promptly collapses to form a black hole.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Bauswein , T. W. Baumgarte , H. -T. Janka

The results of the investigation of the core-envelope model presented in Negi et al. \cite{Ref1} have been discussed in view of the reference \cite{Ref2} . It is seen that there are significant changes in the results to be addressed. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-04 P S Negi

Using the most recent realistic effective interactions for nuclear matter with a smooth extrapolation to high densities including causality, we constrain the equation of state and calculate maximum masses of rotating neutron stars. First…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Heiselberg , M. Hjorth-Jensen

We confirmed the following idea by numerical calculation: The extended structure of baryons may make the nuclear equation of state stiffer at higher density while keeping the compression modulus for normal nuclear matter around its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Qi-Ren Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma , Walter Greiner

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

One of the most intringuing questions about neutron stars concerns their maximum mass. The answer is intimately related to the properties of matter at densities far beyond that found in heavy atomic nuclei. The current view on the internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 N. Chamel , P. Haensel , J. L. Zdunik , A. F. Fantina

Neutron stars, white dwarfs and black holes are the after death remnants of massive stars. However, according to the most recent observations, the neutron stars maximum mass is between $2.0-2.5 M_{\odot}$ while black holes of less than 5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 M. Vikiaris , V. Petousis , M. Veselsky , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Combining the GW observations of merging systems of binary neutron stars and quasi-universal relations, we set constraints on the maximum mass that can be attained by nonrotating stellar models of neutron stars. More specifically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-06 Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih

In the present work we address the issue concerning the relation mass versus radius for bosonic stars, all this in the context of the theory of ultra-cold gases in the dilute regime and within the realm of Newtonian gravity. It will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-02 Sergio Gutiérrez , Belen Carvente , Abel Camacho

The maximum mass of a nonrotating neutron star, $M_{\rm TOV}$, plays a very important role in deciphering the structure and composition of neutron stars and in revealing the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter. Although with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Christian Ecker , Luciano Rezzolla