Holographic compact stars meet gravitational wave constraints

Eemeli Annala (Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland) ; Christian Ecker (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, Vienna, A-1040, Austria) ; Carlos Hoyos (Department of Physics, Universidad de Oviedo, Avda. Calvo Sotelo 18, Oviedo, ES-33007, Spain) ; Niko Jokela (Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland) ; David Fernández (Department of Physics, Universidad de Oviedo, Avda. Calvo Sotelo 18, Oviedo, ES-33007, Spain; Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, 97074, Germany) ; et al. - Show all 6 authors

We investigate a simple holographic model for cold and dense deconfined QCD matter consisting of three quark flavors. Varying the single free parameter of the model and utilizing a Chiral Effective Theory equation of state (EoS) for nuclear matter, we find four different compact star solutions: traditional neutron stars, strange quark stars, as well as two non-standard solutions we refer to as hybrid stars of the second and third kind (HS2 and HS3). The HS2s are composed of a nuclear matter core and a crust made of stable strange quark matter, while the HS3s have both a quark mantle and a nuclear crust on top of a nuclear matter core. For all types of stars constructed, we determine not only their mass-radius relations, but also tidal deformabilities, Love numbers, as well as moments of inertia and the mass distribution. We find that there exists a range of parameter values in our model, for which the novel hybrid stars have properties in very good agreement with all existing bounds on the stationary properties of compact stars. In particular, the tidal deformabilities of these solutions are smaller than those of ordinary neutron stars of the same mass, implying that they provide an excellent fit to the recent gravitational wave data GW170817 of LIGO and Virgo. The assumptions underlying the viability of the different star types, in particular those corresponding to absolutely stable quark matter, are finally discussed at some length.

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Published on:
14 June 2019
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2018 (2019)
Issue 12
Pages 1-38
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)078
arXiv:
1711.06244
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