Progress in constraining nuclear symmetry energy using neutron star observables since GW170817

BA Li, BJ Cai, WJ Xie, NB Zhang - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy is among the most uncertain parts of
the Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nuclear matter. It is currently poorly known …

Towards understanding astrophysical effects of nuclear symmetry energy

BA Li, PG Krastev, DH Wen, NB Zhang - The European Physical Journal A, 2019 - Springer
Determining the Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nuclear matter is a shared
goal of both nuclear physics and astrophysics. Except possible phase transitions, the density …

GW170817: Constraining the nuclear matter equation of state from the neutron star tidal deformability

T Malik, N Alam, M Fortin, C Providência, BK Agrawal… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Constraints set on key parameters of the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS) by the
values of the tidal deformability, inferred from GW170817, are examined by using a diverse …

Nucleon effective masses in neutron-rich matter

BA Li, BJ Cai, LW Chen, J Xu - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
Various kinds of isovector nucleon effective masses are used in the literature to characterize
the momentum/energy dependence of the nucleon symmetry potential or self-energy due to …

Impact of the equation of state on - and - mode oscillations of neutron stars

A Kunjipurayil, T Zhao, B Kumar, BK Agrawal… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We investigate the impact of the neutron-star matter equation of state on the f-and p 1-mode
oscillations of neutron stars obtained within the Cowling approximation and linearized …

Combined constraints on the equation of state of dense neutron-rich matter from terrestrial nuclear experiments and observations of neutron stars

NB Zhang, BA Li, J Xu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Within the parameter space of the equation of state (EOS) of dense neutron-rich matter
limited by existing constraints mainly from terrestrial nuclear experiments, we investigate …

Constraining nuclear matter parameters with GW170817

Z Carson, AW Steiner, K Yagi - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event
GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical …

Proto-neutron stars with heavy baryons and universal relations

AR Raduta, M Oertel, A Sedrakian - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We use covariant density functional theory to obtain the equation of state (EoS) of matter in
compact stars at non-zero temperature, including the full baryon octet as well as the Δ …

Generalized description of neutron star matter with a nucleonic relativistic density functional

P Char, C Mondal, F Gulminelli, M Oertel - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work, we propose a metamodeling technique to nuclear matter on the basis of a
relativistic density functional with density-dependent couplings. Identical density …

Systematic analysis of the impacts of symmetry energy parameters on neutron star properties

NK Patra, A Venneti, SMA Imam, A Mukherjee… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The impacts of various symmetry energy parameters on the properties of neutron stars (NSs)
have been recently investigated, and the outcomes are at variance, as summarized in Table …