Can very compact and very massive neutron stars both exist?

Phase transitions in dense matter and the maximum mass of neutron stars

(2013) N. Chamel et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Maximum mass of neutron stars and strange neutron-star cores

(2013) J. L. Zdunik et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

MEASUREMENT OF THE RADIUS OF NEUTRON STARS WITH HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE QUIESCENT LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

(2013) Sebastien Guillot et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

EQUATION OF STATE AND NEUTRON STAR PROPERTIES CONSTRAINED BY NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND OBSERVATION

(2013) K. Hebeler et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CONSTRAINING THE SYMMETRY PARAMETERS OF THE NUCLEAR INTERACTION

(2013) James M. Lattimer et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA EQUATIONS OF STATE BASED ON NEUTRON STAR OBSERVATIONS

(2013) A. W. Steiner et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Combustion of a neutron star into a strange quark star: The neutrino signal

(2013) Giuseppe Pagliara et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Implications of the measurement of pulsars with two solar masses for quark matter in compact stars and heavy-ion collisions: A Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model case study

(2013) T. Klähn et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Generic conditions for stable hybrid stars

(2013) Mark G. Alford et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary

(2013) J. Antoniadis et al.   SCIENCE

Hyperons in neutron-star cores and a 2 M⊙pulsar

(2012) I. Bednarek et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

PROGENITOR-EXPLOSION CONNECTION AND REMNANT BIRTH MASSES FOR NEUTRINO-DRIVEN SUPERNOVAE OF IRON-CORE PROGENITORS

(2012) Marcella Ugliano et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

On the maximum mass of hyperonic neutron stars

(2012) É. Massot et al.   EPL

Chemical and mechanical instability in warm and dense nuclear matter

(2012) A. Lavagno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW C

Hyperons and massive neutron stars: Vector repulsion and SU(3) symmetry

(2012) S. Weissenborn et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW C

Composition and stability of hybrid stars with hyperons and quark color-superconductivity

(2011) Luca Bonanno et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

EVIDENCE FOR A MASSIVE NEUTRON STAR FROM A RADIAL-VELOCITY STUDY OF THE COMPANION TO THE BLACK-WIDOW PULSAR PSR B1957+20

(2011) M. H. van Kerkwijk et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

QUARK MATTER IN MASSIVE COMPACT STARS

(2011) Simon Weissenborn et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Estimation of the effect of hyperonic three-body forces on the maximum mass of neutron stars

(2011) I. Vidaña et al.   EPL

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)

(2011) M. Feroci et al.   EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the combustion of a neutron star into a quark star

(2011) Matthias Herzog et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

NEUTRON STARS WITH SMALL RADII—THE ROLE OF Δ RESONANCES

(2010) Torsten Schürhoff et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay

(2010) P. B. Demorest et al.   NATURE

Hot and dense hadronic matter in an effective mean-field approach

(2010) A. Lavagno   PHYSICAL REVIEW C

Cold quark matter

(2010) Aleksi Kurkela et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Constraints on Neutron Star Radii Based on Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions

(2010) K. Hebeler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

EOS at FAIR energies and the role of resonances

(2009) E E Zabrodin et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

Neutrino mean free path in neutron star matter with Δ isobars

(2009) Yanjun Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW C

Mass Ejection by Strange Star Mergers and Observational Implications

(2009) A. Bauswein et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS