New mass limit of a strange star admitting a colour flavor locked equation of state

Abstract

Abstract A class of strange stars is analysed in the present article in hydrostatic equilibrium, whose state is defined by a CFL phase equation of state. We have compared our results with those obtained from the MIT equation of state for strange quark matter, which is regarded as free particles. We have noted that if we consider quarks to form a cooper pair and if their description is made by the CFL equation of state, the maximum mass of strange star reaches a value as high as 3.61 $$M_{\odot }$$ M ⊙ . This value is well above the value of 2.03 $$M_{\odot }$$ M ⊙ obtained by using the MIT bag equation of state for massless free quarks. Both the maximum masses are determined by solving the TOV equation for different values of the strange quark mass $$m_s$$ m s . Thus, the inclusion of the possibility of quark pair formation in the theory permits us to accommodate a wider class of compact objects such as PSR J1614-2230, PSR J0740+6620, PSR J0952-0607 etc. and the mass of the companion star in the GW190814 event in our model. The consideration of such a high value of mass is hardly theoretically obtainable from normal strange star models in general relativity even with a fast rotation effect. The object PSR J0952-0607 is found to be the fastest and heaviest pulsar in the disk of Milky Way Galaxy, having a mass of 2.35 $$M_{\odot }$$ M ⊙ , which may be predicted in our model, as observational evidence supports the existence of strange quark matter in its composition.