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Imprints of high-density nuclear symmetry energy on the crustal fraction of neutron star moment of inertia
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy remains the most uncertain aspect of the equation of state (EOS) of supradense neutron-rich nucleonic matter. Imp…
Impact of the nuclear equation of state on the formation of twin stars
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
Twin stars-two stable neutron stars (NSs) with the same mass but different radii have long been proposed to appear as a consequence of a possible first-order phase transition in NS…
Properties of First-Order Hadron-Quark Phase Transition from Inverting Neutron Star Observables
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
By inverting the observational data of several neutron star observables in the three dimensional parameter space of the constant speed of sound (CSS) model while fixing all hadroni…
Impact of Symmetry Energy on Sound Speed and Spinodal Decomposition in Dense Neutron-Rich Matter
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
Using a meta model for nuclear Equation of State (EOS) with its parameters constrained by astrophysical observations and terrestrial nuclear experiments, we examine effects of nucl…
A theoretical overview of isospin and EOS effects in heavy-ion reactions at intermediate energies
Bao-An Li, Bao-Jun Cai, Lie-Wen Chen +3
The isospin dependence of in-medium nuclear effective interactions is a fundamental issue in nuclear physics and has broad ramifications in astrophysics. Its uncertainties, especia…
Progress in Constraining Nuclear Symmetry Energy Using Neutron Star Observables Since GW170817
Bao-An Li, Bao-Jun Cai, Wen-Jie Xie +1
New observational data of neutron stars since GW170817 have helped improve our knowledge about nuclear symmetry energy especially at high densities. We have learned particularly: (…
Impact of NICER's Radius Measurement of PSR J0740+6620 on Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Suprasaturation Densities
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
By directly inverting several neutron star observables in the three-dimensional parameter space for the Equation of State of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter, we show that t…
The key factor to determine the relation between radius and tidal deformability of neutron stars: slope of symmetry energy
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bin Qi, Shou-Yu Wang
The constraints on tidal deformability of neutron stars are first extracted from GW170817 by LIGO and Virgo Collaborations but the relation between radius and tidal deforma…
Towards Understanding Astrophysical Effects of Nuclear Symmetry Energy
Bao-An Li, Plamen G. Krastev, De-Hua Wen +1
Determining the Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nuclear matter is a shared goal of both nuclear physics and astrophysics. Except possible phase transitions, the densi…
Implications of the mass M of PSR~J0740+6620 on the Equation of State of Super-Dense Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
We study implications of the very recently reported mass M of PSR~J0740+6620 on the Equation of State (EOS) of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matt…
Delineating Effects of Nuclear Symmetry Energy on the Radii and Tidal Polarizabilities of Neutron Stars
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
What can we learn about the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy from precise measurements of the radius () and/or tidal polarizability ($Λ…
Extracting Nuclear Symmetry Energies at High Densities from Observations of Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li
By numerically inverting the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equation using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nucleonic matte…
Combined Constraints on the Equation of State of Dense Neutron-Rich Matter from Terrestrial Experiments and Observations of Neutron Stars
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li, Jun Xu
Within the parameter space of equation of state (EOS) of dense neutron-rich matter limited by existing constraints mainly from terrestrial nuclear experiments, we investigate how t…
How tightly is nuclear symmetry energy constrained by unitary Fermi gas?
Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-Jun Cai, Bao-An Li +2
We examine critically how tightly the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy \esym is constrained by the universal equation of state (EOS) of the unitary Fermi gas $E_{\rm{U…