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We perform three-dimensional shearing-box hydrodynamical simulations to explore the outcome of gravitational instability in the outer regions of neutrino-cooled disks such as those formed from the collapse of rotating massive stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Yi-Xian Chen , Brian D. Metzger

The nature of pulsar is still unknown because of non-perturbative effects of the fundamental strong interaction, and different models of pulsar inner structures are then suggested, either conventional neutron stars or quark stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-30 Jiguang Lu , Renxin Xu , Hua Feng

We derive a new equation of state (EoS) for neutron stars (NS) from the outer crust to the core based on modern microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) calculations using the Argonne $v_{18}$ potential plus three-body forces computed with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-02 B. K. Sharma , M. Centelles , X. Vinas , M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio

A proto-neutron star (PNS) is a newly formed compact object in a core collapse supernova. In this Letter, the neutrino emission from the cooling process of a PNS is investigated using two types of nuclear equation of state (EOS). It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Hideyuki Suzuki , Hajime Togashi

An extended set of binary neutron star (NS) merger simulations is performed with an approximative conformally flat treatment of general relativity to systematically investigate the influence of the nuclear equation of state (EoS), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Oechslin , H. -T. Janka , A. Marek

Observations of thermonuclear X-ray bursts from accreting neutron stars (NSs) in low-mass X-ray binary systems can be used to constrain NS masses and radii. Most previous work of this type has set these constraints using Planck function…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 J. Nättilä , M. C. Miller , A. W. Steiner , J. J. E. Kajava , V. F. Suleimanov , J. Poutanen

A new scheme for testing nuclear matter equations of state (EsoS) at high densities using constraints from neutron star phenomenology and a flow data analysis of heavy-ion collisions is suggested. An acceptable EoS shall not allow the…

Model spectra of neutron star atmospheres are nowadays widely used to fit the observed thermal X-ray spectra of neutron stars. This fitting is the key element in the method of the neutronstar radius determination. Here, we present the basic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 V. F. Suleimanov , J. Poutanen , D. Klochkov , K. Werner

Using a extended version of the Quantum Hadrodynamics (QHD), I propose a new microscopic equation of state (EoS) able to correctly reproduce the main properties of symmetric nuclear matter at the saturation density, as well produce massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-13 Luiz L. Lopes

Neutron stars provide a unique laboratory for studying matter at extreme pressures and densities. While there is no direct way to explore their interior structure, X-rays emitted from these stars can indirectly provide clues to the equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Delaney Farrell , Pierre Baldi , Jordan Ott , Aishik Ghosh , Andrew W. Steiner , Atharva Kavitkar , Lee Lindblom , Daniel Whiteson , Fridolin Weber

The inspiral and merger of a binary neutron star (NSNS) can lead to the formation of a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS). As the HMNS loses thermal pressure due to neutrino cooling and/or centrifugal support due to gravitational wave (GW)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-19 Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro

I give a general overview of the theory of neutron star cooling, emphasizing the intuitive understanding of the effects of the various physical ingredients, including the recently proposed accreted envelopes and neutrino emission from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dany Page

The densest state of matter in the universe is uniquely realized inside central cores of the neutron star. While first-principles evaluation of the equation of state of such matter remains as one of the longstanding problems in nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Koichi Murase

The dense environment of neutron stars makes them an excellent target for probing dark matter interactions with the Standard Model. We study neutron star heating from capture of inelastic dark matter, which can evade direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Gerardo Alvarez , Aniket Joglekar , Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr , Hai-Bo Yu

We use a top-down holographic model for strongly interacting quark matter to study the properties of neutron stars. When the corresponding Equation of State (EoS) is matched with state-of-the-art results for dense nuclear matter, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Carlos Hoyos , David Rodríguez Fernández , Niko Jokela , Aleksi Vuorinen

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

Several observations of high-mass neutron stars (NSs), as well as the first historic detection of the binary neutron star merger GW170817, have delivered stringent constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of cold and dense matter. Recent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-25 Michał Marczenko

Determining the type of matter that is inside a neutron star (NS) has been a long-standing goal of astrophysics. Despite this, most of the NS equations of state (EOS) that predict maximum masses in the range 1.4-2.8 solar masses are still…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 John A. Tomsick , Matthew W. Muterspaugh

We explore supervised machine learning methods in extracting the non-linear maps between neutron stars (NS) observables and the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. Using a Taylor expansion around saturation density, we have generated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-22 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

The standard cooling scenario in the presence of nucleon superfluidity fits rather well to the observation of the neutron stars. It implies that the stellar cooling arguments could place a stringent constraint on the properties of novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Deog Ki Hong , Chang Sub Shin , Seokhoon Yun