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Neutron stars are the dense and highly magnetic relics of supernova explosions of massive stars. The quest to constrain the Equation of State (EoS) of ultra-dense matter and thereby probe the behavior of matter inside neutron stars, is one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-09 Alessio Marino , Clara Dehman , Konstantinos Kovlakas , Nanda Rea , Jose A. Pons , D. Viganò

The current picture of the collapse and explosion of massive stars and the formation of neutron stars is reviewed. According to the favored scenario, however by no means proven and undisputed, neutrinos deposit the energy of the explosion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 H. -Th. Janka , K. Kifonidis , M. Rampp

A crucial ingredient affecting fast neutrino flavor conversion in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) is the shape of the angular distribution of the electron-neutrino lepton number (ELN). The presence of an ELN crossing signals favorable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Marie Cornelius , Irene Tamborra , Malte Heinlein , Shashank Shalgar , Hans-Thomas Janka

The evolution of neutron stars (NSs) embedded within massive stellar envelopes is a critical phase in binary stellar evolution, potentially leading to the formation of Thorne-\.Zytkow Objects (T\.ZOs) or catastrophic collapse. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , David Radice , Christopher L. Fryer

Radial pulsations of newborn neutron stars (protoneutron stars) are studied for a range of internal temperatures and entropies per baryon predicted by the existing numerical simulations. Protoneutron star models are constructed using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Gondek , P. Haensel , J. L. Zdunik

The minimal masses and radii of proto-neutron stars during different stages of their evolution are investigated. In our work we focus on two stages, directly after the supernova shock wave moves outwards, where neutrinos are still captured…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-03 Selina Kunkel , Stephan Wystub , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

The results of recent multi-dimensional simulations of type-II supernovae are reviewed. They show that convective instabilities in the collapsed stellar core might play an important role already during the first second after the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -Thomas Janka

The physical evolution of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) is accompanied by an enrichment of the molecular complexity, mainly triggered by the heating and energetic processing of the astrophysical ices. In this paper, a study of how the ice…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 W. R. M. Rocha , S. Pilling

The late-time evolution of the neutrino event rate from supernovae is evaluated for Super-Kamiokande using simulated results of proto-neutron star (PNS) cooling. In the present work we extend the result of Suwa et al. (2019)…

An equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter, describing both the neutron star crust and the liquid core, is calculated. It is based on the effective nuclear interaction SLy of the Skyrme type, which is particularly suitable for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Douchin , P. Haensel

We study equation of state (EOS) of an accreting neutron star crust. Usually, such EOS is obtained assuming (implicitly) that the free (unbound) neutrons and nuclei in the inner crust move together. We argue, that this assumption violates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Mikhail E. Gusakov , Andrey I. Chugunov

Recent developments in neutron star theory and observation are discussed. Based on modern nucleon-nucleon potentials more reliable equations of state for dense nuclear matter have been constructed. Furthermore, phase transitions such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 H. Heiselberg

The structure of neutron stars is determined by the equation of state of the matter inside the star, which relies on the knowledge of nuclear interactions. While radii of neutron stars mostly depend on the equation of state of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-20 Stefano Gandolfi , Diego Lonardoni

A 0.242 Msun object that finally becomes a helium white dwarf is evolved from Roche lobe detachment down to very low luminosities. In doing so, we employ our stellar code to which we have added a set of routines that compute the effects due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Leandro Althaus , Aldo Serenelli , Omar Benvenuto

Neutron star tidal deformability extracted from gravitational wave data provides a novel probe to the interior neutron star structures and the associated nuclear equation of state (EOS). Instead of the popular composition of nucleons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 W. Z. Shangguan , Z. Q. Huang , S. N. Wei , W. Z. Jiang

The equation of state (EoS) of neutron matter plays a decisive role to understand the neutron star properties and the gravitational waves from neutron star mergers. At sufficient densities, the appearance of hyperons generally softens the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Hui Tong , Serdar Elhatisari , Ulf-G. Meißner

Being born hot from core-collapse supernova, the crust of the proto-neutron star is expected to be made of a Coulomb liquid and composed of an ensemble of different nuclear species. In this work, we study the beta-equilibrated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

The thermal evolution of Neutron Stars is affected by the elementary excitations that characterize the stellar matter. In particular, the low-energy excitations, with a spectrum linear in momentum, can play a major role in the emission and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 Marcello Baldo , Camille Ducoin

We investigate the cooling of neutron stars with relativistic and non-relativistic models of dense nuclear matter. We focus on the effects of uncertainties originated from the nuclear models, the composition of elements in the envelope…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-21 Yeunhwan Lim , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

The minimum and maximum mass of protoneutron stars and neutron stars are investigated. The hot dense matter is described by relativistic (including hyperons) and non-relativistic equations of state. We show that the minimum mass ($\sim$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Klaus Strobel , Manfred K. Weigel