Neutron Star vs Quark Star in the Multimessenger Era

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العنوان: Neutron Star vs Quark Star in the Multimessenger Era
المؤلفون: Cao, Zheng, Chen, Lie-Wen
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
الوصف: Neutron stars (NSs) which could contain exotic degrees of freedom in the core and the self-bound quark stars (QSs) made purely of absolutely stable deconfined quark matter are still two main candidates for the compact objects observed in pulsars and gravitational wave (GW) events in binary star mergers. We perform a Bayesian model-agnostic inference of the properties of NSs and QSs by combining multi-messenger data of GW170817, GW190425, PSR J0030+0451, PSR J0740+6620, PSR J1614-2230, PSR J0348+0432 as well as ab initio calculations from perturbative quantum chromodynamics and chiral effective field theory. We find the NS scenario is strongly favored against the QS scenario with a Bayes factor of NS over QS $\mathcal{B}^\text{NS}_\text{QS} = 11.5$. In addition, the peak of the squared sound velocity $c_s^2 \sim 0.5c^2$ around $3.5$ times nuclear saturation density $n_0$ observed in the NS case disappears in the QS case which suggests that the $c_s^2$ first increases and then saturates at $c_s^2 \sim 0.5c^2$ above $\sim 4n_0$. The sound velocity and trace anomaly are found to approach the conformal limit in the core of heavy NSs with mass $M \gtrsim 2M_{\odot}$, but not in the core of QSs.
Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16783
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2308.16783
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv