Universe (Jan 2022)

Equations of State for Hadronic Matter and Mass-Radius Relations of Neutron Stars with Strong Magnetic Fields

  • Chinatsu Watanabe,
  • Naotaka Yoshinaga,
  • Shuichiro Ebata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8010048
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
p. 48

Abstract

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Neutron star is an important object for us to verify the equation of state of hadronic matter. For a specific choice of equations of state, mass and radius of a neutron star are determined, for which there are constraints from observations. According to some previous studies, since the strong magnetic field acts as a repulsive force, there is a possibility that neutron stars with strong magnetic fields may have relatively heavier masses than other non-magnetized neutron stars. In this paper, the structure of a neutron star with a strong internal magnetic field is investigated by changing its internal functional form to see how much the neutron star can be massive and also how radius of a neutron star can be within a certain range.

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