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20182026
most citedEquilibrium, radial stability and non-adiabatic gravitational collapse of anisotropic neutron stars

72 citations · 653 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

gr-qc2026

Structure and astrophysical properties of dark energy admixed neutron stars

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Sergio B. Duarte, Mariana Dutra +1

The presence of a dark energy (DE) core, made of a Chaplygin dark fluid, is capable of influencing the diverse observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). However, there is also…

gr-qc2026

Bayesian constraints on quadratic gravity from the ADM mass of white dwarfs

Edson Otoniel, Lucas A. Souza, Jonathan A. Rebouças +1

We calculate static equilibrium sequences for white dwarfs (WDs) in quadratic symmetric teleparallel gravity, f(Q)=Q+alpha Q^2, and perform a Bayesian comparison between the negati…

hep-th2026

Nucleon spectra and wave functions from holographic models with dual Einstein-dilaton and Starobinsky-dilaton gravities

Adão S. da Silva Junior, Juan M. Z. Pretel, Henrique Boschi-Filho

We study the nucleon spectra in two holographic set-ups: Einstein-dilaton and Starobinsky-dilaton gravity models. The Einstein-dilaton holographic model, also known as improved hol…

astro-ph.SR2026

Magnetic pressure anisotropy in ultra-dense white dwarfs: Landau quantization and neutronization effects

Edson Otoniel, Juan M. Z. Pretel, Victor B. T. Alves +2

Strong magnetic fields modify the thermodynamics of white dwarf (WD) matter by quantizing the transverse motion of degenerate electrons into Landau levels and splitting the pressur…

gr-qc2026

Dark energy stars from the modified Chaplygin gas: universal relations

Krishna Pada Das, Juan M. Z. Pretel

Dark energy stars (DESs), described by the modified Chaplygin gas (MCG), can be dynamically stable and fall within different observational measurements. In this work, we employ div…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Dark Matter in White Dwarfs: Implications for Their Structure

Sílvia P. Nunes, José D. V. Arbañil, Juan M. Z. Pretel +1

White Dwarfs (WDs), the final evolutionary stage of most stars, are frequently modeled considering only a dense plasma matter. However, their potential interaction with dark matter…

gr-qc2025

Examining the influence of anisotropy on the fundamental mode of nonradial oscillation in neutron stars on a complete general relativistic scheme

José D. V. Arbañil, Gabriel O. Cavalheiro, Victor B. T. Alves +3

The anisotropic influence on the -mode frequency of oscillations and dimensionless tidal deformability of neutron stars is analyzed by employing the nonradial oscillation equati…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

White dwarf structure in gravity: beyond the Chandrasekhar mass limit

Edson Otoniel, Juan M. Z. Pretel, Clésio E. Mota +3

In this work, we investigate the relativistic structure of white dwarfs (WDs) within the framework of modified gravity theory , which introduces a non-mi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Self-bound hybrid stars with strong phase transitions can relieve major compact star observation tensions

Chen Zhang, Juan M. Z. Pretel, Renxin Xu

Some recent pulsar observations cannot naturally fit into the conventional picture of neutron stars: the compact objects associated with HESS J1731-347 and XTE J1814-338 have too s…

gr-qc2025★ 14 cited

White dwarfs in regularized 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Takol Tangphati, İzzet Sakallı +1

White dwarfs (WDs), as the remnants of low to intermediate-mass stars, provide a unique opportunity to explore the interplay between quantum mechanical degeneracy pressure and grav…

hep-th2025

Vector mesons from a holographic QCD model in -dilaton gravity

Adão S. da Silva Junior, Juan M. Z. Pretel

In this paper we investigate the spectrum and decay constants of vector mesons based on -dilaton gravity. We focus particularly on the well-known Starobinsky model, given by…

gr-qc2024

Neutron stars with a dark-energy core from the Chaplygin gas

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Mariana Dutra, Sergio B. Duarte

We analyze the effect of a Chaplygin dark fluid (CDF) core on neutron stars (NSs). To address this study, we focus on the relativistic structure of stellar configurations composed…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

Dark energy effects on realistic neutron stars

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Sergio B. Duarte, José D. V. Arbañil +2

By considering realistic equations of state (EoSs) to describe the ordinary matter of the stellar crust, in this study, we explore the effect of a dark energy core, made of Chaplyg…

gr-qc2024★ 17 cited

Moment of inertia and compactness of quark stars within the context of gravity

Juan M. Z. Pretel

Within the metric formalism of gravity theories, we investigate the hydrostatic equilibrium structure of compact stars taking into account both isotropic and anisotrop…

astro-ph.SR2024

Gravitational wave seismology of charged strange stars in the Cowling approximation: the fluid pulsation modes

José D. V. Arbañil, César H. Lenzi, Juan M. Z. Pretel +1

In this work we study, within the framework of Cowling approximation, the effect of the electric charge on the gravitational wave frequency of fluid oscillation modes of strange qu…

gr-qc2024★ 24 cited

Compact stars in Rastall gravity: hydrostatic equilibrium and radial pulsations

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Clésio E. Mota

Within the context of Rastall gravity, we investigate the hydrostatic equilibrium and dynamical stability against radial pulsations of compact stars, where a free parameter mea…

gr-qc2024★ 47 cited

Neutron stars in gravity

Clésio E. Mota, Juan M. Z. Pretel, César O. V. Flores

This study explores the behavior of compact stars within the framework of gravity, focusing on the functional form . The modified Tolman-Oppenh…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 16 cited

Normal oscillation modes and radial stability of neutron stars with a dark-energy core from the Chaplygin gas

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Mariana Dutra, Sergio B. Duarte

As a potential candidate for the late-time accelerating expansion of the Universe, the Chaplygin gas and its generalized models have significant implications to modern cosmology. I…

nucl-th2024★ 13 cited

Universal relations for anisotropic interacting quark stars

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Chen Zhang

Interacting quark stars, which are entirely composed of interacting quark matter including perturbative QCD corrections and color superconductivity, can meet constraints from vario…

gr-qc2023★ 23 cited

Effects of anisotropic pressure on interacting quark star structure

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Takol Tangphati, Ayan Banerjee +1

Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) corrections and color superconductivity predict that strongly interacting matter can reveal new physical phenomena under extreme conditio…

gr-qc2023★ 16 cited

Relativistic structure of charged quark stars in energy-momentum squared gravity

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Takol Tangphati, Ayan Banerjee

Within the context of energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG), where non-linear matter contributions appear in the gravitational action, we derive the modified TOV equations describ…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Compact stars in scalar-tensor theories with a single-well potential and the corresponding theory

Juan M. Z. Pretel, Sergio E. Jorás, Ribamar R. R. Reis +2

The macroscopic properties of compact stars in modified gravity theories can be significantly different from the general relativistic (GR) predictions. Within the gravitational con…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 17 cited

Fluid pulsation modes and tidal deformability of anisotropic strange stars in light of the GW event

José D. V. Arbañil, Cesar V. Flores, César H. Lenzi +1

The effects of the anisotropy on the fluid pulsation modes adopting the so-called Cowling approximation and tidal deformability of strange quark stars are investigated by using the…

gr-qc2023★ 30 cited

Radial pulsations, moment of inertia and tidal deformability of dark energy stars

Juan M. Z. Pretel

We construct dark energy stars with Chaplygin-type equation of state (EoS) in the presence of anisotropic pressure within the framework of Einstein gravity. From the classification…