On the formation of “supermassive” neutron stars and dynamical transition to spontaneous scalarization

It is well known that neutron stars can undergo a phase transition under a certain class of Scalar Tensor Theories of gravity (STT's) where a new order parameter, the scalar charge, appears within the star. This is the well known phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization (SC) discovered by Damour...

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Main Authors: Juan Carlos Degollado, Marcelo Salgado, Miguel Alcubierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932030469X