Studying the onset of deconfinement with multi-messenger astronomy of neutron stars
| Autor: | David Blaschke, Mateusz Cierniak |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Nuclear Theory
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Hadron FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Star (graph theory) 01 natural sciences Deconfinement Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) Pulsar 0103 physical sciences Binary star Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) 010308 nuclear & particles physics Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics Radius Strange matter Neutron star High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| Popis: | With the first multi-messenger observation of a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) new constraints became available for masses and radii of neutron stars. We introduce a class of hybrid EoS that fulfils all these constraints and predicts a region in the mass-radius diagram that could be populated only by hybrid neutron stars with quark matter cores. A confirmation of this conjecture would be provided when the NICER radius measurement for the high-mass pulsar PSR J0740+6620 yields a radius less than 11 km. Would this radius measurement yield a result in excess of 12 km, this would allow for both, a purely hadronic and a hybrid nature of this star. In the latter case the maximum mass could reach $2.6~M_\odot$ so that the lighter object in the asymmetric binary merger GW190814 could have been a hybrid star. We demonstrate that this high mass can be compatible with an early onset of deconfinement at star masses below $1~M_\odot$ and the occurrence of low-mass twin stars. In such a case the remnant of GW170817 could be a long-lived hypermassive pulsar. 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, revised and extended text, added formula, acknowledgement and references, version accepted for publication in Astron. Nachr |
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