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Modified Gravity (MOG) and Heavy Neutron Star in Mass Gap

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 نشر من قبل John W. Moffat
 تاريخ النشر 2020
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 تأليف J. W. Moffat




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The modified gravity (MOG) theory is applied to the gravitational wave binary merger GW190814 to demonstrate that the modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation for a neutron star can produce a mass $M=2.6 -2.7 M_odot$, allowing for the binary secondary component to be identified as a heavy neutron star in the hypothesized mass gap $2.5 - 5 M_odot$.



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