Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

[HTML][HTML] Holographic approach to compact stars and their binary mergers

C Hoyos, N Jokela, A Vuorinen - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review article, we describe the role of holography in deciphering the physics of dense
QCD matter, relevant for the description of compact stars and their binary mergers. We …

Identifying a first-order phase transition in neutron-star mergers through gravitational waves

A Bauswein, NUF Bastian, DB Blaschke… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We identify an observable imprint of a first-order hadron-quark phase transition at
supranuclear densities on the gravitational-wave (GW) emission of neutron-star mergers …

Implications from GW170817 and I-Love-Q relations for relativistic hybrid stars

V Paschalidis, K Yagi, D Alvarez-Castillo, DB Blaschke… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Gravitational wave observations of GW170817 placed bounds on the tidal deformabilities of
compact stars, allowing one to probe equations of state for matter at supranuclear densities …

Equation of state constraints from the threshold binary mass for prompt collapse of neutron star mergers

A Bauswein, S Blacker, V Vijayan, N Stergioulas… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Using hydrodynamical simulations for a large set of high-density matter equations of state
(EOSs), we systematically determine the threshold mass M thres for prompt black-hole …

Core-collapse supernova simulations and the formation of neutron stars, hybrid stars, and black holes

T Kuroda, T Fischer, T Takiwaki… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate observable signatures of a first-order quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
phase transition in the context of core-collapse supernovae. To this end, we conduct axially …

Constraining the onset density of the hadron-quark phase transition with gravitational-wave observations

S Blacker, NUF Bastian, A Bauswein, DB Blaschke… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We study the possible occurrence of the hadron-quark phase transition (PT) during the
merging of neutron star binaries by hydrodynamical simulations employing a set of …

Quark deconfinement as a supernova explosion engine for massive blue supergiant stars

T Fischer, NUF Bastian, MR Wu, P Baklanov… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Blue supergiant stars develop into core-collapse supernovae—one of the most energetic
outbursts in the Universe—when all nuclear burning fuel is exhausted in the stellar core …

Density functional approach to quark matter with confinement and color superconductivity

O Ivanytskyi, D Blaschke - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present a novel relativistic density-functional approach to modeling quark matter with a
mechanism to mimic confinement. The quasiparticle treatment of quarks provides their …

Quark-nuclear hybrid equation of state for neutron stars under modern observational constraints

GA Contrera, D Blaschke, JP Carlomagno, AG Grunfeld… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We study a family of equations of state (EOS) for hybrid neutron star matter. The hybrid EOS
are obtained by a Maxwell construction of the first-order phase transition between a …