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A Comparative Study of Neutron Star Structure Usin
A Comparative Study of Neutron Star Structure Usin
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Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Caixa Postal 354, CEP 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
3 Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Pampa,
Abstract
Neutron stars are the most compact objects in nature widely used in the study of dense mat-
ter physics. In this work we investigate the structure of these stars, described by the Tolman-
Openheimer-Volkof equations, using equations of state for both symmetric nuclear matter and
quark matter. We obtain results for the mass-radius relation and then we compared ours results
with the actual pulsar data recently observed PSR J1614-2230 with a mass 1.97 ± 0.04 M .
mass and M is the nucleon mass. sume u, d, and s quarks; and the bag constant
The PAL model [3] follows the same strat- is set to be B 1/4 = 145 MeV.
egy applied in Walecka model, since its values Before we finalize the methodology of
for the saturation point are fitted to repro- study we present the structure equations used
duce the experimental values. In this con- to calcule the masses and radii of neutron
text, the EoS is given by stars. The TOV equations for an isotropic,
general relativistic, static, ideal fluid sphere
(
(0) Au Buσ
= ρ0 u mn + EF u2/3 + + +
2 1 + B 0 uσ−1 in hydrostatic equilibrium reads
!3
2 ) dP G(r)M (r) P (r)
X Λi pF −1 pF =− 1+
3 Ci (0)
− tan , dr c2 r 2 (r)
i=1 pF Λ i Λ i −1 (7)
3
(3) 4πr P (r) 2GM (r)
1+ 1− ,
M (r)c2 c2 r
d dM 4πr2 (r)
− .
p = ρb (4) = , (8)
dρb dr c2
The saturation density is ρ0 = 0.16 fm−3 where c is the is the speed of light in vacuum.
3
kF
ρb
and u = ρ0
with ρb = 3π 2
. The The set of differential equations is subject to
symmetry energy is defined as S = the initial conditions P (r = 0) = P0 , P (r =
(0)
22/3 − 1 53 EF u2/3 − F (u) + S0 F (u).
R) = 0; M (r = 0) = 0 and M (r = R) = M .
2
III. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS and finaly, M/M = 1.82, R = 10.11 km,
and ρ/ρ0 = 4.92 for M.I.T bag model. The
The EoS parameters of the three models
nuclear models presented in this work are in
discussed in the present work FIG. 1 can be
agreement with the actual observation of the
found in the following references [2–4]. In
pulsar PS1614-2230. However, the realistic
the FIG. 1a we show a comparative graph
approach must consider a hot rotating star
between the three EoS and the causal limit
with a strong magnetic field, and include all
( = p). Then we solved the TOV equa-
the baryon octet. This will be the next step
tions numerically using the 4th Order Runge-
of the present work.
Kutta method and present the results of each
TOV integration with differents EoS in the
FIG. (1b).
In sumary the stellar macroscopic prop- IV. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
erties obtained in the present work are
M/M = 2.65, R = 11.55 km, and ρ/ρ0 = We would like to thank CAPES (Coor-
2.33 for Walecka model; M/M = 2.25, R = denação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de
11.92 km, and ρ/ρ0 = 5.70 for PAL model, Nı́vel Superior) for the financial support.
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600
500
400
p[MeV/fm3 ]
p
ϵ=
300
200
100
0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
ϵ[MeV/fm3 ]
3.0
2.33116
2.5
5.7061
PSR J1614-2230
2.0
4.92
M/M⊙
1.5
1.0
0.5
6 8 10 12 14 16
R[km]
4
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