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Obese ‘neutron’ stars

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WE show here that non-rotating, spherically symmetric, general relativistic ‘neutron’ stars of mass ≥ 3M⊙ are consistent with the known laws of physics. In particular, for the ‘bag’ model of hadrons, we find Mmax ≃ 3M⊙. The maximum mass for polytropic equations of state is found to be ≃5 M⊙.

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  1. Department of Physics and Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139

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BRECHER, K., CAPORASO, G. Obese ‘neutron’ stars. Nature 259, 377–378 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259377a0

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