Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations

E Berti, E Barausse, V Cardoso… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

The nuclear equation of state and neutron star masses

JM Lattimer - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Neutron stars are valuable laboratories for the study of dense matter. Recent observations
have uncovered both massive and low-mass neutron stars and have also set constraints on …

[HTML][HTML] Physical characteristics and maximum allowable mass of hybrid star in the context of f (Q) gravity

P Bhar, S Pradhan, A Malik, PK Sahoo - The European Physical Journal C, 2023 - Springer
In this study, we explore several new characteristics of a static anisotropic hybrid star with
strange quark matter (SQM) and ordinary baryonic matter (OBM) distribution. Here, we use …

Study of embedded class-I fluid spheres in f (R, T) gravity with Karmarkar condition

Z Asghar, MF Shamir, A Usman, A Malik - Chinese Journal of Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, we explore some emerging properties of the stellar objects in the frame of the f
(R, T) gravity by employing the well-known Karmarkar condition, where R and T represent …

Limiting masses and radii of neutron stars and their implications

C Drischler, S Han, JM Lattimer, M Prakash, S Reddy… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We combine the equation of state of dense matter up to twice nuclear saturation density n
sat obtained using chiral effective field theory (χ EFT) and recent observations of neutron …

The dense matter equation of state from neutron star radius and mass measurements

F Özel, D Psaltis, T Güver, G Baym… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive study of spectroscopic radius measurements of twelve neutron
stars obtained during thermonuclear bursts or in quiescence. We incorporate, for the first …

Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic equations of state<? format?> and their gravitational wave signatures in binary inspiral

T Hinderer, BD Lackey, RN Lang, JS Read - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2010 - APS
The early part of the gravitational wave signal of binary neutron-star inspirals can potentially
yield robust information on the nuclear equation of state. The influence of a star's internal …

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 …

The equation of state from observed masses and radii of neutron stars

AW Steiner, JM Lattimer, EF Brown - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We determine an empirical dense matter equation of state (EOS) from a heterogeneous data
set of six neutron stars: three Type-I X-ray bursters with photospheric radius expansion …

The neutron star mass–radius relation and the equation of state of dense matter

AW Steiner, JM Lattimer, EF Brown - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter has been a long-sought goal of nuclear physics.
EOSs generate unique mass versus radius (M–R) relations for neutron stars, the ultra-dense …