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Impact of the PSR J0740+6620 radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter

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 نشر من قبل Isaac Legred
 تاريخ النشر 2021
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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X-ray pulse profile modeling of PSR J0740+6620, the most massive known pulsar, with data from the NICER and XMM-Newton observatories recently led to a measurement of its radius. We investigate this measurements implications for the neutron star equation of state (EoS), employing a nonparametric EoS model based on Gaussian processes and combining information from other x-ray, radio and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. Our analysis mildly disfavors EoSs that support a disconnected hybrid star branch in the mass-radius relation, a proxy for strong phase transitions, with a Bayes factor of $6.9$. For such EoSs, the transition mass from the hadronic to the hybrid branch is constrained to lie outside ($1,2$) $M_{odot}$. We also find that the conformal sound-speed bound is violated inside neutron star cores, which implies that the core matter is strongly interacting. The squared sound speed reaches a maximum of $0.75^{+0.25}_{-0.24}, c^2$ at $3.60^{+2.25}_{-1.89}$ times nuclear saturation density at 90% credibility. Since all but the gravitational-wave observations prefer a relatively stiff EoS, PSR J0740+6620s central density is only $3.57^{+1.3}_{-1.3}$ times nuclear saturation, limiting the density range probed by observations of cold, nonrotating neutron stars in $beta$-equilibrium.



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