This thesis aims to study the interior properties of isolated, non-accreting, and non-rotating (proto-)neutron stars. For this purpose, the meta-modeling technique was employed to compute the properties of nuclear matter, while the inhomogeneities in the crust were characterized using a compressible liquid drop model. Furthermore, the equation of s...
In this thesis, we address two topics related to the physics of dense baryonic matter in the V-QCD holographic model for QCD. In a first part, the single V-QCD baryon solution is analyzed. An important part of this analysis is the construction of the five-dimensional Tachyon-Chern-Simons action. The most general form of the Tachyon-Chern-Simons 5-f...
peer reviewed / The existence of massive compact stars (M ≤ 2:1 M) implies that the speed of sound exceeds the conformal limit (c2s=1-3x the squared speed of light in vacuum) if those stars have an inner and outer crust of ordinary nuclear matter. Here, we show that if the most massive objects are strange quark stars, namely, stars entirely compose...
editorial reviewed / We show that the odds of the mass-gap (secondary) object in GW190814 being a neutron star (NS) improve if one allows for a stiff high-density equation of state (EoS) or a large spin. Since its mass is $in (2.50,2.67) , mathrm{M}_{odot }$, establishing its true nature will make it either the heaviest NS or the lightest black hol...
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse...
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse...
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse...
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse...
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse...
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse...
