On the sound speed in neutron stars

  • Determining the sound speed cs in compact stars is an important open question with numerous implications on the behavior of matter at large densities and hence on gravitational-wave emission from neutron stars. To this scope, we construct more than 107 equations of state (EOSs) with continuous sound speed and build more than 108 nonrotating stellar models consistent not only with nuclear theory and perturbative QCD, but also with astronomical observations. In this way, we find that EOSs with subconformal sound speeds, i.e., with cs 1 3 2 < within the stars, are possible in principle but very unlikely in practice, being only 0.03% of our sample. Hence, it is natural to expect that cs 1 3 2 > somewhere in the stellar interior. Using our large sample, we obtain estimates at 95% credibility of neutron-star radii for representative stars with 1.4 and 2.0 solar masses, R1.4 12.42 km 0.99 0.52 = - + , R2.0 12.12 km 1.23 1.11 = - + , and for the binary tidal deformability of the GW170817 event, 1.186 485 211 225 L = - ˜ + . Interestingly, our lower bounds on the radii are in very good agreement with the prediction derived from very different arguments, namely, the threshold mass. Finally, we provide simple analytic expressions to determine the minimum and maximum values of L˜ as a function of the chirp mass.

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Author:Sinan Altiparmak, Christian EckerORCiD, Luciano RezzollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-843928
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9b2a
ISSN:2041-8213
Parent Title (English):The astrophysical journal letters
Publisher:IOP Publishing
Place of publication:Bristol
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/11/10
Date of first Publication:2022/11/10
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/05/02
Volume:939
Issue:2, L34
Article Number:L34
Page Number:9
HeBIS-PPN:521017939
Institutes:Physik
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International