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most citedCrystallization of the inner crust of a neutron star and the influence of shell effects

46 citations · 135 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

gr-qc2026

Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run

Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546

From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…

astro-ph.HE2026

Bayesian analysis of the shear modulus in the neutron-star crust

T. Diverrès, G. Montefusco, A. F. Fantina +1

The elastic properties of the neutron-star crust are important for the calculations of crustal modes. In particular, the ability of the crust to support shear stresses has been con…

nucl-th2026

Emulator-Assisted Nuclear DFT Inference and Its Consequences for the Structure of Neutron Stars

Pietro Klausner, Marco Antonelli, Gianluca Colò +3

Nuclear density functional theory provides a unified description of finite nuclei and bulk nuclear matter, and is widely used to model the neutron star equation of state. However,…

nucl-th2026

An Asymptotically Causal Metamodel for Neutron Star Equations of State

Gabriele Montefusco, Marco Antonelli, Francesca Gulminelli

Nuclear metamodels - phenomenological parametrizations of the energy of nuclear matter - are convenient tools to explore the space of realistic neutron star configurations constrai…

astro-ph.IM2026

Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview

F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578

This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…

nucl-th2026

Medium effects on light clusters from heavy-ion collisions within a relativistic mean-field description

Tiago Custódio, Francesca Gulminelli, Alex Rebillard-Soulié +5

Central XeSn collisions from INDRA data are analysed using a Bayesian inference on light nuclei multiplicities to estimate the thermodynamical parameters a…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESO Expanding Horizon White Paper: Revealing the properties of matter at supranuclear densities with gravitational waves

Tim Dietrich, Tanja Hinderer, Micaela Oertel +40

Understanding dense matter under extreme conditions is one of the most fundamental puzzles in modern physics. Complex interactions give rise to emergent, collective phenomena. Whil…

astro-ph.HE2025

Nuclear parameter inference with semi-agnostic priors

Lami Suleiman, Anthea F. Fantina, Francesca Gulminelli +1

Radio pulsar timing, X-ray pulse profile modeling, and gravitational-wave detections of binary mergers involving at least one neutron star probe the properties of dense, neutron-ri…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Properties of neutron stars with hyperons within a generalized relativistic approach

Prasanta Char, Chiranjib Mondal, Timothé Alezraa +2

In this work, we study the effects of -hyperons on neutron star properties employing a generalized relativistic framework for the equation of state (EOS). Different choices for…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Crust (Unified) Tool for Equation-of-state Reconstruction (CUTER) v2

P. J. Davis, H. Dinh Thi, A. F. Fantina +3

The equation of state (EoS) is a needed input to determine the neutron-star global properties and to relate them. It is thus important to provide consistent and unified EoSs to avo…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 26 cited

Dense Matter in Neutron Stars with eXTP

Ang Li, Anna L. Watts, Guobao Zhang +82

In this White Paper, we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars, explo…

nucl-th2025★ 6 cited

Bayesian inference of neutron star crust properties using an ab initio-benchmarked meta-model

S. Burrello, F. Gulminelli, M. Antonelli +2

Accurate modeling of the neutron star crust is essential for interpreting multimessenger observations and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EoS). However, standard phenom…

nucl-th2025★ 4 cited

Neutron Star Inner Crust at Finite Temperatures: A Comparison Between Compressible Liquid Drop and Extended Thomas-Fermi Approaches

Guilherme Grams, Nikolai N. Shchechilin, Théau Diverrès +3

We investigate the effects of temperature on the properties of the inner crust of a non-accreting neutron star. To this aim, we employ two different treatments: the compressible li…

nucl-th2025

Properties of the neutron star crust informed by nuclear structure data

Pietro Klausner, Marco Antonelli, Francesca Gulminelli

We perform a Bayesian analysis of the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) based on a wide set of Skyrme functionals, derived from previous nuclear physics inferences. The nov…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Light clusters as a possible source of crustal impurities: a quasi-particle approach

Helena Pais, Hoa Dinh-Thi, Anthea F. Fantina +2

The presence of impurities in the neutron star crust is known to affect in an important way the thermal and electrical conductivity of the star. In this work, we explore the possib…

nucl-th2024★ 4 cited

Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields

Prabal Adhikari, Martin Ammon, Sidney S. Avancini +58

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous across different physical systems of current interest; from the early Universe, compact astrophysical objects and heavy-ion collisions to condensed m…

nucl-th2024★ 11 cited

Frozen and -equilibrated and modes of cold neutron stars: nuclear metamodel predictions

Gabriele Montefusco, Marco Antonelli, Francesca Gulminelli

When the chemical re-equilibration timescale is sufficiently long, the normal and quasi-normal mode frequencies of neutron stars should be calculated in the idealized limit that th…

nucl-th2024

Calibrating the medium effects of light clusters in heavy-ion collisions

Tiago Custódio, Alex Rebillard-Soulié, Rémi Bougault +5

We propose a Bayesian inference estimation of in-medium modification of the cluster self-energies from light nuclei multiplicities measured in selected samples of central $^{136,12…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 26 cited

Inference of neutron-star properties with unified crust-core equations of state for parameter estimation

P. J. Davis, H. Dinh Thi, A. F. Fantina +3

Relating different global neutron-star (NS) properties, such as tidal deformability and radius, or mass and radius, requires an equation of state (EoS). Determining the NS EoS is t…

nucl-th2024

General predictions of neutron star properties using unified relativistic mean-field equations of state

Luigi Scurto, Helena Pais, Francesca Gulminelli

In this work we present general predictions for the static observables of neutron stars (NSs) under the hypothesis of a purely nucleonic composition of the ultra-dense baryonic mat…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Nuclear physics inputs for dense-matter modelling in neutron stars. The nuclear equation of state

A. F. Fantina, F. Gulminelli

In this contribution, we briefly present the equation-of-state modelling for application to neutron stars and discuss current constraints coming from nuclear physics theory and exp…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 46 cited

Crystallization of the inner crust of a neutron star and the influence of shell effects

T. Carreau, F. Gulminelli, N. Chamel +2

Context. In the cooling process of a non-accreting neutron star, the composition and properties of the crust are thought to be fixed at the finite temperature where nuclear reactio…