Strongly interacting matter exhibits deconfined behavior in massive neutron stars

E Annala, T Gorda, J Hirvonen, O Komoltsev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities in our Universe. This highly
compressed matter may undergo a phase transition where nuclear matter melts into …

Exploring robust correlations between fermionic dark matter model parameters and neutron star properties: A two-fluid perspective

P Thakur, T Malik, A Das, TK Jha, C Providência - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate the probable existence of dark matter in the interior of neutron stars. Despite
the current state of knowledge, the observational properties of neutron stars have not …

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 …

Decoding neutron star observations: Revealing composition through Bayesian neural networks

V Carvalho, M Ferreira, T Malik, C Providência - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We exploit the great potential offered by Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) to directly
decipher the internal composition of neutron stars (NSs) based on their macroscopic …

Constraining a relativistic mean field model using neutron star mass–radius measurements I: nucleonic models

C Huang, G Raaijmakers, AL Watts… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Measurements of neutron star mass and radius or tidal deformability deliver unique insight
into the equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter. EOS inference is very often done using …

Nonstrange quark stars within resummed QCD

TE Restrepo, C Providência, MB Pinto - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The recently developed resummation technique known as renormalization group optimized
perturbation theory (RGOPT) is employed in the evaluation of the equation of state (EOS) …

From neutron star observations to nuclear matter properties: A machine learning approach

V Carvalho, M Ferreira, C Providência - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
This study is devoted to the inference problem of extracting the nuclear matter properties
directly from a set of mass-radius observations. We employ Bayesian neural networks …

Bayesian study of quark models in view of recent astrophysical constraints

FM da Silva, A Issifu, LL Lopes, LCN Santos… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this work, we perform a comparative analysis between the density-dependent quark
model and the vector MIT bag model using Bayesian analysis. We use the equations of state …

New covariant density functionals of nuclear matter for compact star simulations

JJ Li, A Sedrakian - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We generate three families of extended covariant density functionals of nuclear matter that
have varying slope of symmetry energy and skewness at nuclear saturation density, but …

Realizing the potential of deep neural network for analyzing neutron star observables and dense matter equation of state

A Thete, K Banerjee, T Malik - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The difficulty in describing the equation of state (EOS) for nuclear matter at densities above
the saturation density (ρ 0) has led to the emergence of a multitude of models based on …