Neutron stars and the nuclear equation of state

GF Burgio, HJ Schulze, I Vidaña, JB Wei - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the current status and recent progress of microscopic many-body approaches
and phenomenological models, which are employed to construct the equation of state of …

Neutron-star tidal deformability and equation-of-state constraints

K Chatziioannou - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2020 - Springer
Despite their long history and astrophysical importance, some of the key properties of
neutron stars are still uncertain. The extreme conditions encountered in their interiors …

A NICER view of PSR J0030+ 0451: millisecond pulsar parameter estimation

TE Riley, AL Watts, S Bogdanov, PS Ray… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the
millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+ 0451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

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 …

GW190814: Impact of a 2.6 solar mass neutron star on the nucleonic equations of state

FJ Fattoyev, CJ Horowitz, J Piekarewicz, B Reed - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Is the secondary component of GW190814 the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron
star ever discovered in a double compact-object system [Abbott et al. Astrophys. J. 896, L44 …

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

A lower bound on the maximum mass if the secondary in GW190814 was once a rapidly spinning neutron star

ER Most, LJ Papenfort, LR Weih… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The recent detection of GW190814 featured the merger of a binary with a primary having a
mass of and a secondary with a mass of. While the primary was most likely a black hole, the …

Multimessenger parameter estimation of GW170817

D Radice, L Dai - The European Physical Journal A, 2019 - Springer
We combine gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) data to perform a Bayesian
parameter estimation of the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817. The EM likelihood …

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 …