The recent direct observation of gravitational wave event GW170817 and its GRB170817A
signal has opened up a new window to study neutron stars and heralds a new era of …

We review some recent results about the mechanism of deconfinement of hadronic matter
into quark matter in cold neutron stars and protoneutron stars. We discuss the role of finite …

We study the consequences of the hadron-quark deconfinement phase transition in stellar
compact objects when finite-size effects between the deconfined quark phase and the …

We investigate possible traces of the nuclear symmetry energy slope (L) in the gravitational
wave emission of neutron stars. For fixed stellar mass values, we examine how the slope …

There are strong indications that the process of conversion of a neutron star into a strange
quark star proceeds as a strong deflagration implying that in a few milliseconds almost the …

We study the influence of strong magnetic fields in hybrid stars, composed by hadrons and a
pure quark matter core, and analyse their structure and stability as well as some possible …

We study the hydrodynamical transition from a hadronic star into a quark or a hybrid star. We
discuss the possible mode of burning, using a fully relativistic formalism and realistic …

We present results from a numerical solution to the burning of neutron matter inside a cold
neutron star into stable u, d, s quark matter. Our method solves hydrodynamical flow …

An increase in the central density of a neutron star may trigger a phase transition from
hadronic matter to deconfined quark matter in the core, causing it to collapse to a more …

Aims. We study the nucleation of quark matter drops at the center of cold deleptonized
neutron stars. These drops can be made up of unpaired quark matter or of color …