Nuclear Constraints on the Moments of Inertia of Neutron Stars
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Abstract
The properties and structure of neutron stars are determined by the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich stellar matter. While the collective flow and particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have tightly constrained the EOS of symmetric nuclear matter up to about 5 times the normal nuclear matter density, more recent experimental data on isospin diffusion and isoscaling in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies have constrained considerably the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy at subsaturation densities. Although there are still many uncertainties and challenges to pin down completely the EOS of neutron-rich nuclear matter, heavy-ion reaction experiments in terrestrial laboratories have limited the EOS of neutron-rich nuclear matter to a range much narrower than that spanned by the various EOSs currently used in astrophysical studies in the literature. These nuclear physics constraints could thus provide more reliable information about the properties of neutron stars. Within well-established formalisms using the nuclear-constrained EOSs, we study the moments of inertia of neutron stars. We place special emphasis on component A of the extremely relativistic double neutron star system PSR J0737–3039. Its moment of inertia is found to be between 1.30 × 1045 and 1.63 × 1045 g cm2. Moreover, the transition density at the crust-core boundary is shown to lie in the narrow range ρt = 0.091-0.093 fm−3.
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