Dark matter admixed neutron stars show up to 12% thinner crusts and higher torsional oscillation frequencies than pure neutron stars when dark matter forms a core, with analytical formulas matching numerics at sub-percent level.
The Physics of Neutron Stars
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Neutron stars are some of the densest manifestations of massive objects in the universe. They are ideal astrophysical laboratories for testing theories of dense matter physics and provide connections among nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics. Neutron stars may exhibit conditions and phenomena not observed elsewhere, such as hyperon-dominated matter, deconfined quark matter, superfluidity and superconductivity with critical temperatures near ${10^{10}}$ kelvin, opaqueness to neutrinos, and magnetic fields in excess of $10^{13}$ Gauss. Here, we describe the formation, structure, internal composition and evolution of neutron stars. Observations that include studies of binary pulsars, thermal emission from isolated neutron stars, glitches from pulsars and quasi-periodic oscillations from accreting neutron stars provide information about neutron star masses, radii, temperatures, ages and internal compositions.
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EP251023a is a new extragalactic fast X-ray transient whose optical light curve is interpreted as a rare magnetar-powered internal plateau with derived upper limits on spin period and magnetic field.
In the NJL model, increasing isospin chemical potential favors pion superfluidity at small magnetic fields and rho superconductivity at large magnetic fields.
Hybrid star model with core quark pasta pinning superfluid vortices produces glitch amplitudes ΔΩ/Ω of order 10^{-6} matching Vela-like pulsar observations.
The Lee-Huang-Yang beyond-mean-field correction measurably reduces the dimensionless moment of inertia of slowly rotating BEC dark stars at fixed compactness while preserving the I-Love universal relation to within a few percent.
Higher-order isospin corrections in Skyrme EOSs significantly modify composition-sensitive quantities like proton fraction and chemical potential difference at supra-nuclear densities but leave bulk thermodynamic properties insensitive for most viable models.
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.
Moderate positive pressure anisotropy raises neutron star maximum mass to about 2.4 solar masses and compactness by up to 20 percent, with curvature scalars tied to matter showing strong sensitivity while the Weyl scalar stays largely insensitive.
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.
A Poincaré-covariant vector-vector contact interaction yields an equation of state for strange quark matter whose mass-radius and tidal properties match pulsar and gravitational-wave constraints for two tuned parameter sets.
Comparative numerical study of radial modes in strange quark stars using CFL, interacting, and linear causal EOS shows all satisfy current mass-radius bounds and produce 4-7 kHz fundamental frequencies.
A review of spin effects, superfluidity, and magnetic fields in neutron matter and their influence on neutron-star structure, superfluid phases, and rotational dynamics.
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The crust of dark-matter admixed neutron stars: bulk properties and torsional oscillations
Dark matter admixed neutron stars show up to 12% thinner crusts and higher torsional oscillation frequencies than pure neutron stars when dark matter forms a core, with analytical formulas matching numerics at sub-percent level.
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EP251023a: A fast X-ray transient featuring a magnetar-powered optical internal plateau followed by a steep decay
EP251023a is a new extragalactic fast X-ray transient whose optical light curve is interpreted as a rare magnetar-powered internal plateau with derived upper limits on spin period and magnetic field.
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QCD phase transition at finite isospin density and magnetic field
In the NJL model, increasing isospin chemical potential favors pion superfluidity at small magnetic fields and rho superconductivity at large magnetic fields.
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Modeling large glitches with core superfluidity in a Hybrid star
Hybrid star model with core quark pasta pinning superfluid vortices produces glitch amplitudes ΔΩ/Ω of order 10^{-6} matching Vela-like pulsar observations.
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Slowly rotating condensate dark stars beyond the mean-field approximation
The Lee-Huang-Yang beyond-mean-field correction measurably reduces the dimensionless moment of inertia of slowly rotating BEC dark stars at fixed compactness while preserving the I-Love universal relation to within a few percent.
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On the effect of higher order symmetry energy corrections in Skyrme models for neutron star matter
Higher-order isospin corrections in Skyrme EOSs significantly modify composition-sensitive quantities like proton fraction and chemical potential difference at supra-nuclear densities but leave bulk thermodynamic properties insensitive for most viable models.
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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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Impact of Anisotropy on Neutron Star Structure and Curvature
Moderate positive pressure anisotropy raises neutron star maximum mass to about 2.4 solar masses and compactness by up to 20 percent, with curvature scalars tied to matter showing strong sensitivity while the Weyl scalar stays largely insensitive.
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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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A Poincar\'e-covariant study of strange quark stars
A Poincaré-covariant vector-vector contact interaction yields an equation of state for strange quark matter whose mass-radius and tidal properties match pulsar and gravitational-wave constraints for two tuned parameter sets.
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Radial oscillations of quark stars in light of current astrophysical constraints: A comparative study
Comparative numerical study of radial modes in strange quark stars using CFL, interacting, and linear causal EOS shows all satisfy current mass-radius bounds and produce 4-7 kHz fundamental frequencies.
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Spin effects in superfluidity, neutron matter and neutron stars
A review of spin effects, superfluidity, and magnetic fields in neutron matter and their influence on neutron-star structure, superfluid phases, and rotational dynamics.