90 research outputs found

    Comment on “Tidal Love numbers of neutron and self-bound quark stars”

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    We comment on the paper of S. Postnikov et al. [Phys. Rev. D 82, 024016 (2010)] and give a modified formula that needs to be taken into account when calculating the tidal Love number of neutron stars in case a first order phase-transition occurs at nonzero pressure. We show that the error made when using the original formula tends to zero as p->0, and we estimate the maximum relative error to be ∼5% if the density discontinuity is at larger densities

    Hybrid star construction with the extended linear sigma model: preliminary results

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    The interior of compact stars is usually divided into two major parts, the outer part called crust and the inner part called core. There are several possibilities for the composition of these parts. One is a hybrid star, in which the crust contains nuclear matter, while the inner core contains quark matter. Since at large baryon densities one can work with effective models, and nuclear and quark matter are usually described by different models, some unification of the two parts is needed. We show two different approaches for a composite model and some recent developments in hybrid star constructions using the extended linear sigma model for modeling the quark matter at the core

    Eccentricity distributions of eccentric binary black holes in galactic nuclei

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    Galactic nuclei are expected to be one of the main sites for formations of eccentric binary black holes (EBBHs), with an estimated detection rate of O(1100\mathcal{O}(1-100 yr1)^{-1}) with Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) detectors operating at design sensitivity. The two main formation channels of these binaries are gravitational capture and the secular Kozai-Lidov mechanism, with expectedly commensurable formation rates. We used Monte Carlo simulations to construct the eccentricity distributions of EBBHs formed through these channels in galactic nuclei, at the time their gravitational-wave signals enter the aLIGO band at 1010 Hz. We have found that the proportion of binary black holes entering the aLIGO band with eccentricities larger than 0.10.1 is 10\sim 10 percent for the secular Kozai-Lidov mechanism, and 75\sim 75 percent for gravitational capture. We show that if future EBBH detection rates with aLIGO will be dominated by EBBHs formed in galactic nuclei, then the proportions of EBBHs formed through the two main channels can be constrained to a ΔF=0.2\Delta \mathcal{F}= 0.2 wide one-sigma confidence interval with a few tens of observations, even if parameter estimation errors are taken into account at realistic levels.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, typos correcte

    What neutron stars tell about the hadron-quark phase transition: a Bayesian study

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    The existence of quark matter inside the heaviest neutron stars has been the topic of numerous recent studies, many of them suggesting that a phase transition to strongly interacting conformal matter inside neutron stars is feasible. Here we examine this hybrid star scenario using a soft and a stiff hadronic model, a constituent quark model with three quark flavours, and applying a smooth crossover transition between the two. Within a Bayesian framework, we study the effect of up-to-date constraints from neutron star observations on the equation-of-state parameters and various neutron star observables. Our results show that a pure quark core is only possible if the maximum mass of neutron stars is below 2.35 M\sim2.35~M_\odot. However, we also find, consistently with other studies, that a peak in the speed of sound, exceeding 1/31/3, is highly favoured by astrophysical measurements, which might indicate the percolation of hadrons at 34n0\sim3-4n_0. Even though our prediction for the phase transition parameters varies depending on the specific astrophysical constraints utilized, the position of the speed of sound peak only changes slightly, while the existence of pure quark matter below 4n0\sim4 n_0, using our parameterization, is disfavoured. On the other hand, the preferred range for the EoS shows signs of conformality above 4n0\sim4n_0. Additionally, we present the difference in the upper bounds of radius estimates using the full probability density data and sharp cut-offs, and stress the necessity of using the former.Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev.

    Neutron star properties with careful parameterization in the (axial)vector meson extended linear sigma model

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    The existence of quark matter inside the cores of heavy neutron stars is a possibility which can be probed with modern astrophysical observations. We use an (axial)vector meson extended quark-meson model to describe quark matter in the core of neutron stars. We discover that an additional parameter constraint is necessary in the quark model to ensure chiral restoration at high densities. By investigating hybrid star sequences with various parameter sets we show that low sigma meson masses are needed to fulfill the upper radius constraints, and that the maximum mass of stable hybrid stars is only slightly dependent on the parameters of the crossover-type phase transition. Using this observation and results from recent astrophysical measurements a constraint of 2.6 < g_V < 4.3 is set for the constituent quark - vector meson coupling. The effect of a nonzero bag constant is also investigated and we observe that its effect is small for values adopted in previous works.Comment: 15 pages, 12 figure

    Modeling Schumann resonances with schupy

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    Schupy is an open-source python package aimed at modeling and analyzing Schumann resonances (SRs), the global electromagnetic resonances of the Earth-ionosphere cavity resonator in the lowest part of the extremely low frequency band (<100 Hz). Its very-first function forward_tdte applies the solution of the 2-D telegraph equation introduced recently by Prácser et al. (2019) for a uniform cavity and is able to determine theoretical SR spectra for arbitrary source-observer configurations. It can be applied for both modeling extraordinarily large SR-transients or “background” SRs excited by incoherently superimposed lightning strokes within an extended source region. Three short studies are presented which might be important for SR related research. With the forward_tdte function our aim is to provide a medium complexity numerical background for the interpretation of SR observations. We would like to encourage the community to join our project in developing open-source analyzing capacities for SR research as part of the schupy package

    Compact star properties from an extended linear sigma model

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    The equation of state provided by effective models of strongly interacting matter should comply with the restrictions imposed by current astrophysical observations of compact stars. Using the equation of state given by the (axial-)vector meson extended linear sigma model, we determine the mass-radius relation and study whether these restrictions are satisfied under the assumption that most of the star is filled with quark matter. We also compare the mass-radius sequence with those given by the equations of state of somewhat simpler models.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
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