Nuclear constraints on properties of rotating neutron stars and gravitational waves

ORAL

Abstract

Nuclear reactions with radioactive beams provide unique means to constrain the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich matter, in particular its density dependence through the nuclear symmetry energy. The EOS is important for our understanding of numerous phenomena in nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Applying an EOS with symmetry energy constrained by recent nuclear laboratory data, we set a limit on the properties of rotating neutron stars and the resultant gravitational waves.

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Authors

  • Plamen Krastev

    San Diego State University, Texas A\&M University-Commerce

  • Andreas Bill

    Photonics CoE, Sciprint.org, LLNL, OSU, Imperial College London, General Atomis, UCSD, University of Milan, Instituto Superior Technico, University of Alberta, US Dept. of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Parlier, CA, Dept. of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Dept. of Physics, California State University, Fresno, Weizmann Institute of Science, Stanford University, University of Connecticut, Storrs, UC Irvine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, California Institute of Technology, Ulm University, TU Darmstadt, UC Berkeley, GSFC, University of Regenberg, Germany, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, University of California, Los Angeles, Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, PSFC, MIT, University of California, Santa Barbara, Process Measurements Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Division of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Department of Physics, Fars Science and Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Texas A\&M University-Commerce, California State University, Long Beach, Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara