TY - JOUR A1 - Jakobus, Pia A1 - Motornenko, Anton A1 - Gomes, Rosana de Oliveira A1 - Steinheimer, Jan A1 - Stöcker, Horst T1 - The possibility of twin star solutions in a model based on lattice QCD thermodynamics T2 - The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields N2 - The properties of compact stars and in particular the existence of twin star solutions are investigated within an effective model that is constrained by lattice QCD thermodynamics. The model is modified at large baryon densities to incorporate a large variety of scenarios of first order phase transitions to a phase of deconfined quarks. This is achieved by matching two different variants of the bag model equation of state, in order to estimate the role of the Bag model parameters on the appearance of a second family of neutron stars. The produced sequences of neutron stars are compared with modern constrains on stellar masses, radii, and tidal deformability from astrophysical observations and gravitational wave analyses. It is found that those scenarios in our analysis, in which a third family of stars appeared due to the deconfinement transition, are disfavored from astrophysical constraints. Y1 - 2021 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/86346 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-863464 SN - 1434-6052 VL - 81.2021 IS - 1, article number 41 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg ER -