Slow stable hybrid stars: a new class of compact stars that fulfills all current observational constraints [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10380


We study hybrid stars considering the effects on stellar stability of the hadron-quark conversion speed at the sharp interface. The equation of state is constructed by combining a model-agnostic hadronic description with a constant speed of sound model for quark matter. We show that current LIGO/Virgo, NICER, low-density nuclear and high-density perturbative QCD constraints can be satisfied in two scenarios with low and high transition pressures. If the conversion speed is slow, a new class of hybrid objects is possible and very stiff hadronic equations of state cannot be discarded.

Read this paper on arXiv…

G. Lugones, M. Mariani and I. Ranea-Sandoval
Tue, 22 Jun 21
45/71

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures