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An equation of state (EoS) for symmetric nuclear matter is constructed using the density dependent M3Y effective interaction and extended for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Theoretically obtained values of symmetric nuclear matter…

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The thermal evolution of a few thermodynamic properties of the nuclear surface like its thermodynamic potential energy, entropy and the symmetry free energy are examined for both semi-infinite nuclear matter and finite nuclei. The…

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The nucleon effective mass, binding energy and neutron star configuration in the Relativistic Mean-Field Theory (RMF) is considered. The calculation are motivated by the construction of the equation of state for a neutron star in the RMF.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Ryszard Manka , Ilona Bednarek , Grzegorz Przybyla

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

An accurately calibrated relativistic parametrization is introduced to compute the ground state properties of finite nuclei, their linear response, and the structure of neutron stars. While similar in spirit to the successful NL3 parameter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Todd-Rutel , J. Piekarewicz

The ground-state properties of neutron-rich nuclear clusters in the inner crust of neutron stars are investigated within the Wigner-Seitz approximation using a relativistic mean-field framework. The radial Dirac equations are solved with an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Jinzhe Zhang , Hong Shen , Ying Zhang , Jinniu Hu

We study the effects of dark matter on the structural properties of neutron stars. In particular we investigate how the presence of a dark matter component influences the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass of a neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Domenico Scordino , Ignazio Bombaci

We present a methodical study of the thermal and nuclear properties for the hot nuclear matter using relativistic-mean field theory. We examine the effects of temperature on the binding energy, pressure, thermal index, symmetry energy, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

We present a detailed analysis of three models predicting the properties of non-uniform matter in the crust of neutron stars: the compressible liquid-drop model, the fourth order Extended Thomas Fermi (ETF) method, and ETF plus Strutinsky…

The Feynman-Metropolis-Teller treatment of compressed atoms has been recently generalized to relativistic regimes and applied to the description of static and rotating white dwarfs in general relativity. We present here the extension of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-28 S. M. de Carvalho , M. Rotondo , Jorge A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

Density dependent parametrization models of the nucleon-meson effective couplings, including the isovector scalar \delta-field, are applied to asymmetric nuclear matter. The nuclear equation of state and the neutron star properties are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Liu , M. Di Toro , V. Greco , C. W. Shen , E. G. Zhao , B. X. Sun

We trace a systematic and consistent method to precisely numerate the magnitude range for various structural and isospin compositional properties of the neutron star. Incompressibility, symmetry energy, slope parameter and curvature of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , S. K. Patra

A quantitative description of the properties of hot nuclear matter will be needed for the interpretation of the available and forthcoming astrophysical data, providing information on the post merger phase of a neutron star coalescence. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Lucas Tonetto , Omar Benhar

The role of the symmetry energy and the neutron-matter stiffness on the tidal deformability of a cold nonaccreted neutron star is studied using a set of unified equations of state. Based on the nuclear energy-density functional theory,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Loic Perot , Nicolas Chamel , Aurélien Sourie

Observation of cooling neutron stars can potentially provide information about the states of matter at supernuclear densities. We review physical properties important for cooling such as neutrino emission processes and superfluidity in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. G. Yakovlev , C. J. Pethick

In this paper the equation of state of hot neutron matter is calculated. Involving the Oppenheimer-Volkov-Tolman equation global parameters of a neutron star at the finite temperature are obtained. The objective of our work was to study the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Ilona Bednarek , Ryszard Manka

A remarkable fact about spherically-symmetric neutron stars in hydrostatic equilibrium - the so-called Schwarzschild stars - is that the only physics that they are sensitive to is the equation of state of neutron-rich matter. As such,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-28 J. Piekarewicz

The structure of neutron stars is considered from theoretical and observational perspectives. We demonstrate an important aspect of neutron star structure: the neutron star radius is primarily determined by the behavior of the pressure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

The properties of neutron stars are studied in a composite model of the strong interaction. In the regime of low to medium baryonic densities a covariant hadronic model is adopted which includes an exclusive channel for the hyperon-hyperon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 R. M. Aguirre

With the effective chiral model, the finite temperature properties of nuclear matter have been studied at different temperatures. For symmetric nuclear matter, I particularly focused on the possibility of liquid-gas phase transition at low…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-22 Debashree Sen