SLIDE 18 Neutron star mergers are a testbed for General Relativity Hadron physics input (this talk: Eq. of State) Providing an EoS with minimum bias Do not assume GR: a software implementation
R + aR2 gravity: N-star mass increased for sufficiently large a
R (km) 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 M (Msun) 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
GR a= - 0.001 a= - 0.01 a= - 0.03 a= - 0.05
R (km) 9 9.5 10 10.5 11 11.5 12 12.5 M (Msun) 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 3.2
GR a= - 0.001 a= - 0.01 a= - 0.03 a= - 0.05
R (km) 10.5 11 11.5 12 12.5 13 13.5 14 14.5 M (Msun) 2 2.5 3 3.5
GR a= - 0.001 a= - 0.01 a= - 0.03 a= - 0.05
◮ State equations of Hebeler et al. APJ773:11 (2013) ◮ Matching to exterior Schwarzschild (careful: lot of energy
there)
◮ Find heavier stars
(M. Aparicio Resco et al., Phys. Dark Universe 2016; also works by Odintsov and coll. and Yazadjev & Doneva)
Equation of State for modified gravity studies at neutron stars