Speaker
Tyler Gorda
(TU Darmstadt)
Description
At asymptotically high densities, the neutron-star-matter equation of state (EOS) must approach the EOS of beta-equilibrated QCD matter, as calculated directly within the fundamental QCD theory. This nontrivial constraint at high density, pressure, and chemical potential impacts the inference of the neutron-star-matter EOS at even lower densities. In this talk, I show how this constraint drives the densest matter in the cores of massive neutron stars towards thermodynamic properties consistent with quark matter, even after current astrophysical observations are included in the analysis.
Primary authors
Tyler Gorda
(TU Darmstadt)
Oleg Komoltsev
(PhD student of University of Stavanger)
Aleksi Kurkela
(CERN and Univ. Stavanger)
