Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2009-11-29
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
9 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to Compact stars in the QCD phase diagram II (CSQCD II), May 20-24, 2009, Beijing, China
Scientific paper
Using the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter that has been recently constrained by the isospin diffusion data from intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions, we have studied the transition density and pressure at the inner edge of neutron star crusts, and they are found to be 0.040 fm^{-3} <= \rho_{t}<= 0.065 fm^{-3} and 0.01 MeV/fm^{3} <= P_{t} <= 0.26 MeV/fm^{3}, respectively, in both the dynamical and thermodynamical approaches. We have further found that the widely used parabolic approximation to the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter gives significantly higher values of core-crust transition density and pressure, especially for stiff symmetry energies. With these newly determined transition density and pressure, we have obtained an improved relation between the mass and radius of neutron stars based on the observed minimum crustal fraction of the total moment of inertia for Vela pulsar.
Chen Lie-Wen
Li Bao-An
Ma Hong-Ru
Xu Jun
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