European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (Feb 2022)

Estimating tidal Love number of a class of compact stars

  • Shyam Das,
  • Bikram Keshari Parida,
  • Ranjan Sharma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10057-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 82, no. 2
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract Tidal deformability of a star in the presence of an external tidal field provides an important avenue to our understanding about the structure and properties of neutron stars. The deformation of the star is characterized by the tidal Love number (TLN). In this paper, we propose a technique to measure the TLN of a particular class of compact stars. In particular, we analyze the impact of anisotropy and compactness on the TLN.