Implications of PREX-2 on the equation of state of neutron-rich matter

BT Reed, FJ Fattoyev, CJ Horowitz, J Piekarewicz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Laboratory experiments sensitive to the equation of state of neutron rich matter in the vicinity
of nuclear saturation density provide the first rung in a “density ladder” that connects …

Nuclear physics of the outer layers of accreting neutron stars

Z Meisel, A Deibel, L Keek, P Shternin… - Journal of Physics G …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Now 50 years since the existence of the neutron star crust was proposed, we review the
current understanding of the nuclear physics of the outer layers of accreting neutron stars …

Skyrme crystals, nuclear matter and compact stars

C Adam, AG Martín-Caro, M Huidobro… - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
A general review of the crystalline solutions of the generalized Skyrmemodel and their
application to the study of cold nuclear matter at finite density and the Equation of State …

Unified equations of state for cold non-accreting neutron stars with Brussels–Montreal functionals–I. Role of symmetry energy

JM Pearson, N Chamel, AY Potekhin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The theory of the nuclear energy-density functional is used to provide a unified and
thermodynamically consistent treatment of all regions of cold non-accreting neutron stars. In …

Projecting the likely importance of weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity in neutron star mergers

ER Most, SP Harris, C Plumberg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we estimate how much bulk viscosity driven by Urca processes is likely to affect
the gravitational wave signal of a neutron star coalescence. In the late inspiral, we show that …

Extracting nuclear symmetry energies at high densities from observations of neutron stars and gravitational waves

NB Zhang, BA Li - The European Physical Journal A, 2019 - Springer
By numerically inverting the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equation using an explicitly
isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nucleonic …

Unveiling the engines of fast radio bursts, superluminous supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts

B Margalit, BD Metzger, E Berger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Young, rapidly spinning magnetars are invoked as central engines behind a diverse set of
transient astrophysical phenomena, including gamma-ray bursts, superluminous …

Constraints on the symmetry energy from PREX-II in the multimessenger era

TG Yue, LW Chen, Z Zhang, Y Zhou - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The neutron skin thickness Δ r np of heavy nuclei is essentially determined by the symmetry
energy density slope L (ρ) at ρ c= 0.11 fm− 3≈ 2/3 ρ 0 (ρ 0 is nuclear saturation density) …

Beta equilibrium under neutron star merger conditions

MG Alford, A Haber, SP Harris, Z Zhang - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
We calculate the nonzero-temperature correction to the beta equilibrium condition in nuclear
matter under neutron star merger conditions, in the temperature range 1mEv< T≲ 5 mEv. We …

Signatures for quark matter from multi-messenger observations

MG Alford, S Han, K Schwenzer - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the prospects for detecting quark matter in neutron star cores. We survey the
proposed signatures and emphasize the importance of data from neutron star mergers …