A New Constraint on the Nuclear Equation of State from Statistical Distributions of Compact Remnants of Supernovae Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract Understanding how matter behaves at the highest densities and temperatures is a major open problem in both nuclear physics and relativistic astrophysics. Our understanding of such behavior is often encapsulated in the so-called high-temperature nuclear equation of state (EOS), which influences compact binary mergers, core-collapse supernovae, and other phenomena. Our focus is on the type (either black hole or neutron star) and mass of the remnant of the core collapse of a massive star. For each six candidates of equations of state, we use a very large suite of spherically symmetric supernova models to generate a sample of synthetic populations of such remnants. We then compare these synthetic populations to the observed remnant population. Our study provides a novel constraint on the high-temperature nuclear EOS and describes which EOS candidates are more or less favored by an information-theoretic metric.

published proceedings

  • ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

altmetric score

  • 1.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Meskhi, M. M., Wolfe, N. E., Dai, Z., Frohlich, C., Miller, J. M., Wong, R., & Vilalta, R.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Meskhi, Mikhail M||Wolfe, Noah E||Dai, Zhenyu||Frohlich, Carla||Miller, Jonah M||Wong, Raymond KW||Vilalta, Ricardo

publication date

  • January 2022