2013/08/05 by Márcio G. B. de Avellar, J. E. Horvath, de Avellar, Marcio G B +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.1033
openalex publication_date 2013/08/05 · openalex created_date 2022/10/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The composition of neutron stars is an issue that has been studied for\ndecades. Yet we do not know exactly what these very compact objects are made\nof. At this stage of the technological development the best we can do is to\nconstrain the range of equations of state via the mass-radius diagram. From the\ntheoretical point of view the things are not easier. The theory of matter at\nhigh density and temperature is not well established.\n Keeping this in mind we applied the Information Theory as a novel way to\nrestrict the range of possible equations of state for neutron stars.\n From our results, we conclude that if order costs energy, then nature should\nfavour exotic strange quark stars over the hadronic neutron stars and that\nthere is a trend for the types of compact stars of classified under the\nnomenclature "neutrons stars" to be at a state of minimum complexity.\n