In this work we consider strange stars formed by quark matter in the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase of color superconductivity. The CFL phase is described by a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with four-fermion vector and diquark interaction channels. The e
ffect of the color superconducting medium on the gluons are incorporated into the model by including the gluon self-energy in the thermodynamic potential. We construct parametrizations of the model by varying the vector coupling $G_V$ and comparing the results to the data on tidal deformability from the GW170817 event, the observational data on maximum masses from massive pulsars such as the MSP J0740+6620, and the mass/radius fits to NICER data for PSR J003+0451. Our results points out to windows for the $G_V$ parameter space of the model, with and without gluon effects included, that are compatible with all these astrophysical constraints, namely, $0.21<G_V/G_S<0.4$, and $0.02<G_V/G_S<0.1$, respectively. We also observe a strong correlation between the tidal deformabilites of the GW170817 event and $G_V$. Our results indicate that strange stars cannot be ruled out in collisions of compact binaries from the structural point of view.
Following the reported discovery of the gravitational-wave pulse GW170817/ G298048 by three LIGO/Virgo antennae (Abbott et al., 2017a), the MASTER Global Robotic Net telescopes obtained the first image of the NGC 4993 galaxy after the NS+NS merging.
The optical transient MASTER OTJ130948.10-232253.3/SSS17a was later found, which appears to be a kilonova resulting from a merger of two neutron stars. In this paper we report the independent detection and photometry of the kilonova made in white light and in B, V, and R filters. We note that luminosity of the discovered kilonova NGC 4993 is very close to another possible kilonova proposed early GRB 130603 and GRB 080503.
The agreement of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) deduced from the GW170817 based tidal deformability with the one obtained from empirical data on microscopic nuclei is examined. It is found that suitably chosen experimental data on isoscalar and
isovector modes of nuclear excitations together with the observed maximum neutron star mass constrain the EoS which displays a very good congruence with the GW170817 inspired one. The giant resonances in nuclei are found to be instrumental in limiting the tidal deformability parameter and the radius of neutron star in somewhat narrower bounds. At the 1$sigma$ level, the values of the canonical tidal deformability $Lambda_{1.4}$ and the neutron star radius $R_{1.4}$ come out to be $267pm144$ and $11.6pm1.0$ km, respectively.
The detection of gravitational waves from GW170817 has provided a new opportunity to constrain the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars. In this article, we investigate the possible existence of quarks inside the neutron star core in the context
of GW170817. The nucleon phase is treated within the relativistic nuclear mean-field approach where we have employed a fully comprehensive set of available models, and the quark phase is described in the Bag model. We show that the nucleonic EOSs which are inconsistent with the tidal deformability bound become consistent when phase transition to quark matter via Gibbs construction is allowed. We find that several nucleonic EOSs support the presence of pure quark matter core with a small mass not more than $0.17M_odot$ confined within a radius of 0.9 km. We also find that the strong correlation between tidal deformability and neutron star radii observed for pure nucleonic stars does persist even with a nucleon-quark phase transition and provides an upper limit on the radius of $R_{1.4} lesssim 12.9$ km for a $1.4M_odot$ neutron star.
We propose three scenarios for compact hybrid stars consisting of nuclear and dark matters which could possibly serve as alternative interpretations to the LIGO/Virgo events GW170817 and GW190425. To demonstrate our proposal, we adopt the SLy4 equati
on of state (EoS) for nuclear matter, and an EoS for a bosonic self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), which is simple and capable of yielding both reasonable halo density and compact stars. We study the mass-radius and tidal Love number (TLN)-mass relations for these compact hybrid stars, and also generalize the Bardeen-Thorne-Meltzer (BTM) criteria to discuss in details the possible saddle instability due to the nature of two-fluid model. Our results show that it is possible for our hybrid star scenarios to explain GW170817 and GW190425. Some of the hybrid stars can have compact neutron or mixed cores around 10km while possessing thick dark matter shells, which can then explain the astrophysical observations of neutron stars with compact photon radius and mass higher than 2 solar masses. Reversely, we also infer the dark matter model from the parameter estimation of GW190425. Our scenarios of compact hybrid stars can be further tested by the coming LIGO/Virgo O3 events.