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General Relativistic Stellar Structure Equations in Julia

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Abstract

Understanding the characteristics of the condensed matter within neutron stars (NSs) is an important objective in astrophysics. By measuring the properties of NSs, we are able to obtain clues about the kind of strange matter that reside within them. We develop a new Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) solver in the Julia language to generate data that simulates various characteristics of many NSs when provided an equation of state (EOS). We then make connections between the data from our solver to what is known from real world observations.

Presenters

  • Mathew A Leon

    California State University, Long Beach

Authors

  • Mathew A Leon

    California State University, Long Beach

  • David Radice

    Pennsylvania State University

  • Aviral Prakash

    Pennsylvania State University