The three-body force effects on the equation of state and its iso-spin dependence of asymmetric nuclear matter and on the proton fraction in neutron star matter have been investigated within Brueckner-Hartree-Fock app...The three-body force effects on the equation of state and its iso-spin dependence of asymmetric nuclear matter and on the proton fraction in neutron star matter have been investigated within Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach by using a microscopic three-body force. It is shown that, even in the presence of the three-body force, the empirical parabolic law of the energy per nucleon vs. isospin asymmetry is fulfilled in the whole asymmetry range and also up to high density. The three-body force provides a strong enhancement of symmetry energy at high density in agreement with relativistic approaches. It also shows that the three-body force leads to a much more rapid increasing of symmetry energy with density in relatively high density region and to a much lower threshold density for the direct URCA process to occur in a neutron star as compared to the predictions adopting only pure two-body force.展开更多
The Chandrasekhar-Friedmann-Schutz （CFS） instabilities of r-modes for canonical neutron stars （1.4 Me） with rigid crusts are investigated by using an equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter with super-soft ...The Chandrasekhar-Friedmann-Schutz （CFS） instabilities of r-modes for canonical neutron stars （1.4 Me） with rigid crusts are investigated by using an equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter with super-soft symmetry energy, where the non-Newtonian gravity proposed in the grand unification theories is also considered. Constrained by the observations of the masses and the spin frequencies for neutron stars, the boundary of the r-mode instability window for a canonical neutron star is obtained, and the results show that the observed neutron stars are all outside the instability window, which is consistent with the theoretical expectation. In addition, an upper limit of the non-Newtonian gravity parameters is also given.展开更多
文摘The three-body force effects on the equation of state and its iso-spin dependence of asymmetric nuclear matter and on the proton fraction in neutron star matter have been investigated within Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach by using a microscopic three-body force. It is shown that, even in the presence of the three-body force, the empirical parabolic law of the energy per nucleon vs. isospin asymmetry is fulfilled in the whole asymmetry range and also up to high density. The three-body force provides a strong enhancement of symmetry energy at high density in agreement with relativistic approaches. It also shows that the three-body force leads to a much more rapid increasing of symmetry energy with density in relatively high density region and to a much lower threshold density for the direct URCA process to occur in a neutron star as compared to the predictions adopting only pure two-body force.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 10947023 and 11275073the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2012ZZ0079the Project Sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry
文摘The Chandrasekhar-Friedmann-Schutz （CFS） instabilities of r-modes for canonical neutron stars （1.4 Me） with rigid crusts are investigated by using an equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter with super-soft symmetry energy, where the non-Newtonian gravity proposed in the grand unification theories is also considered. Constrained by the observations of the masses and the spin frequencies for neutron stars, the boundary of the r-mode instability window for a canonical neutron star is obtained, and the results show that the observed neutron stars are all outside the instability window, which is consistent with the theoretical expectation. In addition, an upper limit of the non-Newtonian gravity parameters is also given.
