Complete leading-order dynamical tidal corrections to neutron-star binaries are derived in EFT, showing dynamical Love numbers enhanced relative to static ones and yielding measurable contributions to the GW phase at 8PN order.
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The equation of state for nucleon matter and neutron star structure
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Properties of dense nucleon matter and the structure of neutron stars are studied using variational chain summation methods and the new Argonne v18 two-nucleon interaction. The neutron star gravitational mass limit obtained with this interaction is 1.67 M_{solar}. Boost corrections to the two-nucleon interaction, which give the leading relativistic effect of order (v/c)^2, as well as three-nucleon interactions, are also included in the nuclear Hamiltonian. Their successive addition increases the mass limit to 1.80 and 2.20 M_{solar}. Hamiltonians including a three-nucleon interaction predict a transition in neutron star matter to a phase with neutral pion condensation at a baryon number density of 0.2 fm^{-3}. We also investigate the possibility of dense nucleon matter having an admixture of quark matter, described using the bag model equation of state. Neutron stars of 1.4 M_{solar} do not appear to have quark matter admixtures in their cores. However, the heaviest stars are predicted to have cores consisting of a quark and nucleon matter mixture. These admixtures reduce the maximum mass of neutron stars from 2.20 to 2.02 (1.91) M_{solar} for bag constant B = 200 (122) MeV/fm^3. Stars with pure quark matter in their cores are found to be unstable. We also consider the possibility that matter is maximally incompressible above an assumed density, and show that realistic models of nuclear forces limit the maximum mass of neutron stars to be below 2.5 M_{solar}. The effects of the phase transitions on the composition of neutron star matter and its adiabatic index are discussed.
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Affine-model hydrodynamics shows three-wave NS tidal couplings are fixed by linear Love numbers, yet omit ~1.7 rad of GW phase per star by merger; four-wave terms cannot lock f-modes.
A minimal dark matter model with one complex scalar carrying B and L numbers, stabilized by proton stability, with mass near the proton mass and relic density from UV freeze-in.
In massive scalar-tensor gravity, rotating neutron stars that collapse emit nearly the same tensor gravitational waves as in general relativity, but lose about 10^-3 solar masses of energy in scalar radiation - far more than the quadrupole channel.
Strongly interacting dark matter described by a first-principles G2 gauge-theory equation of state can be mixed into neutron stars while remaining compatible with current observational constraints.
Requiring causal stable thermodynamically consistent extensions of neutron-star EOS models to perturbative QCD constrains high-density behavior and disfavors purely nucleonic descriptions for all stable stars.
Heavy scalar fields in neutron stars form interior shell-localized profiles that reshape the effective equation of state and break the I-Q relation while remaining hidden from binary pulsar observations.
Neutron stars yield tighter bounds on muonic scalar and vector fifth forces (g_φμ ≲ 10^{-12}, g_Vμ ≲ 3×10^{-13} for m_X ≲ 100 keV) than SN 1987A, plus hydrostatic constraints for long-range cases.
Hierarchical Bayesian inference on 20 high-SNR simulated binary neutron star events shows a linear lnΛ-lnQ relation suffices and constrains dynamical Chern-Simons gravity length scale to ≤10 km.
Causal viscous relativistic hydrodynamics applied to neutron stars yields new axial mode families without perfect-fluid counterparts, including mode avoidance and long-lived modes.
Mass-gap compact objects could be hybrid stars only with very early deconfinement and stiff quark matter; confirming 1.4 M⊙ twin stars would cap hybrid-star maximum mass below 2.2 M⊙.
A small vacuum-like dark-energy admixture in neutron stars with 400 MeV–1 GeV fermionic dark matter shrinks halo-induced radius differences from several kilometers to sub-kilometer scales and mass differences to ≲1%.
Bayesian modeling with informed priors reduces uncertainties in neutron-star crust shear properties, predicting torsional mode frequencies of 20-50 Hz compatible with observations.
Varying neutron star core composition with hyperons and Delta resonances mildly affects the QCD axion mass limit from cooling, potentially bringing the DFSZ limit into the IAXO sensitivity window.
Next-generation GW detector networks can constrain the spatial curvature parameter Ω_k to 1σ uncertainty of 0.029 using intermediate-mass binary black hole bright sirens.
The IdylliQ model uses quark saturation to generate stiff equations of state and effective baryon repulsions that mitigate hyperon softening in neutron star matter.
Direct comparison of Konno-99 perturbative and LORENE numerical methods for poloidal magnetized neutron stars shows perturbative validity for observed fields up to ~10^16 G and numerical resolution limits below ~10^10 G.
Significant X-ray flux blocking in 4U 1746-37 allows the neutron star to have canonical mass and radius values of 1.59 solar masses and 13 km or 2.12 solar masses and 9.8 km.
Fisher-matrix forecasts show Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope can probe sub-solar PBHs to z~3 and distinguish PBHs from neutron stars up to z~0.2 via lack of tidal deformability.
Precision timing of PSR J1738+0333 from EPTA and NANOGrav data yields the tightest strong-field constraints on Einstein-aether parameters from any single binary pulsar.
The MUSES Calliope engine computes multi-dimensional QCD equations of state, merges them consistently, and feeds them into viscous hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions with movable critical points and critical scaling in transport coefficients.
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Dynamical Tidal Response of Neutron Stars: from Effective Field Theory to Gravitational Waveforms
Complete leading-order dynamical tidal corrections to neutron-star binaries are derived in EFT, showing dynamical Love numbers enhanced relative to static ones and yielding measurable contributions to the GW phase at 8PN order.
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Nonlinear hydrodynamics in spinning neutron stars: Theoretical universal relations and equilibrium solutions
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Minimal Proton-Mass Dark Matter
A minimal dark matter model with one complex scalar carrying B and L numbers, stabilized by proton stability, with mass near the proton mass and relic density from UV freeze-in.
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Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star Collapse in Massive Scalar-Tensor Theories
In massive scalar-tensor gravity, rotating neutron stars that collapse emit nearly the same tensor gravitational waves as in general relativity, but lose about 10^-3 solar masses of energy in scalar radiation - far more than the quadrupole channel.
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Strongly Interacting Dark Matter admixed Neutron Stars
Strongly interacting dark matter described by a first-principles G2 gauge-theory equation of state can be mixed into neutron stars while remaining compatible with current observational constraints.
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As above, so below: assessing extremeness of the neutron-star equation of state based on the unstable branch
Requiring causal stable thermodynamically consistent extensions of neutron-star EOS models to perturbative QCD constrains high-density behavior and disfavors purely nucleonic descriptions for all stable stars.
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Donutization Inside Neutron Stars: Shell-Localized Scalar Fields
Heavy scalar fields in neutron stars form interior shell-localized profiles that reshape the effective equation of state and break the I-Q relation while remaining hidden from binary pulsar observations.
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Neutron Star Bounds on Muonic Fifth Forces from Picometer to Kilometer Scales
Neutron stars yield tighter bounds on muonic scalar and vector fifth forces (g_φμ ≲ 10^{-12}, g_Vμ ≲ 3×10^{-13} for m_X ≲ 100 keV) than SN 1987A, plus hydrostatic constraints for long-range cases.
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Inferring neutron-star Love-Q relations from gravitational waves in the hierarchical Bayesian framework
Hierarchical Bayesian inference on 20 high-SNR simulated binary neutron star events shows a linear lnΛ-lnQ relation suffices and constrains dynamical Chern-Simons gravity length scale to ≤10 km.
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Axial Oscillations of Viscous Neutron Stars
Causal viscous relativistic hydrodynamics applied to neutron stars yields new axial mode families without perfect-fluid counterparts, including mode avoidance and long-lived modes.
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Hybrid stars among mass gap objects are excluded by twin stars at $1.4\,M_\odot$
Mass-gap compact objects could be hybrid stars only with very early deconfinement and stiff quark matter; confirming 1.4 M⊙ twin stars would cap hybrid-star maximum mass below 2.2 M⊙.
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Sub-GeV dark matter in neutron stars: halo morphologies and their suppression by vacuum-like pressure
A small vacuum-like dark-energy admixture in neutron stars with 400 MeV–1 GeV fermionic dark matter shrinks halo-induced radius differences from several kilometers to sub-kilometer scales and mass differences to ≲1%.
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Bayesian analysis of the shear modulus in the neutron-star crust
Bayesian modeling with informed priors reduces uncertainties in neutron-star crust shear properties, predicting torsional mode frequencies of 20-50 Hz compatible with observations.
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Core Composition Effects on the QCD Axion Mass Limit from Neutron Star Cooling
Varying neutron star core composition with hyperons and Delta resonances mildly affects the QCD axion mass limit from cooling, potentially bringing the DFSZ limit into the IAXO sensitivity window.
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Shape of U: Measuring the Curvature of the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Next-generation GW detector networks can constrain the spatial curvature parameter Ω_k to 1σ uncertainty of 0.029 using intermediate-mass binary black hole bright sirens.
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A quarkyonic matter model
The IdylliQ model uses quark saturation to generate stiff equations of state and effective baryon repulsions that mitigate hyperon softening in neutron star matter.
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Magnetized neutron stars: perturbative versus fully-numerical approaches
Direct comparison of Konno-99 perturbative and LORENE numerical methods for poloidal magnetized neutron stars shows perturbative validity for observed fields up to ~10^16 G and numerical resolution limits below ~10^10 G.
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The compact neutron star in 4U 1746-37 revisited: Reassessing the mass and radius
Significant X-ray flux blocking in 4U 1746-37 allows the neutron star to have canonical mass and radius values of 1.59 solar masses and 13 km or 2.12 solar masses and 9.8 km.
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Primordial black holes versus their impersonators at gravitational wave observatories
Fisher-matrix forecasts show Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope can probe sub-solar PBHs to z~3 and distinguish PBHs from neutron stars up to z~0.2 via lack of tidal deformability.
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Constraints on Einstein-aether gravity from the precision timing of PSR J1738+0333
Precision timing of PSR J1738+0333 from EPTA and NANOGrav data yields the tightest strong-field constraints on Einstein-aether parameters from any single binary pulsar.
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Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine
The MUSES Calliope engine computes multi-dimensional QCD equations of state, merges them consistently, and feeds them into viscous hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions with movable critical points and critical scaling in transport coefficients.