The understanding of stellar structure represents the crossroads of our theories of the nuclear force and the gravitational interaction under the most extreme conditions observably …
The dawn of the twenty-first century came with very positive prospects for gravity, cosmology, and astrophysics. Technological progress made it possible for cosmology to enter to its …
One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity (GR) has made remarkable predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests …
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In this work, we study the neutron star phenomenology of R p attractor theories in the Einstein frame. The Einstein frame R p attractor theories have the attractor property that they …
Scalarization is a mechanism that endows strongly self-gravitating bodies, such as neutron stars and black holes, with a scalar-field configuration. It resembles a phase transition in that …
Astrophysical black hole candidates are thought to be the Kerr black holes of general relativity, but there is not yet direct observational evidence that the spacetime geometry …
In this work we study static neutron stars in the context of several inflationary models which are popular in cosmology. These inflationary models are nonminimally coupled scalar …
Exploring the nature of gravity in the strong curvature regime is seeing a surge of interest lately. This is expected to intensify, as it is driven by current and future observations of …
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This study focuses on the static neutron star perspective for two types of cosmological inflationary attractor theories, namely the induced inflationary attractors and the quadratic …