Investigating signatures of phase transitions in neutron-star cores
| Autor: | R. Somasundaram, I. Tews, J. Margueron |
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| Přispěvatelé: | HEP, INSPIRE, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | HAL |
| ISSN: | 2469-9993 2469-9985 |
| Popis: | Neutron stars explore matter at the highest densities in the universe such that their inner cores might undergo a phase transition from hadronic to exotic phases, e.g., quark matter. Such a transition could be associated with non-trivial structures in the density behavior of the speed of sound such as jumps and sharp peaks. Here, we employ a physics-agnostic approach to model the density dependence of the speed of sound in neutron stars and study to what extent the existence of non-trivial structures can be inferred from existing astrophysical observations of neutron stars. For this, we exhaustively study different equations of state, including as well those with explicit first-order phase transitions. We obtain a large number of different EoSs which reproduce the same astrophysical observations and obey the same physical constraints such as mechanical stability and causality. Among them, some have non-trivial structures in the sound speed while others do not. We conclude that astrophysical information to date do not require the existence of a phase transition to quark matter in the density range explored in the core of neutron stars. Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. Comments welcome |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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