Abstract
New models of rotating neutron stars show that only a surprisingly narrow range of possible equations of state (EOS’s) can simultaneously allow a rotating neutron star with frequency as large as 1968 Hz and a spherical (nonrotating) neutron star with mass as large as 1.44. The mass and baryon mass for the 1968-Hz models exceed 1.5 and 1.7, implying a progenitor mass >1.7. Those EOS’s that allowed 1968-Hz models have, for spherical stars, a stringent upper mass limit <1.7. Each model at 1968 Hz has mass above the spherical upper mass limit for its EOS, implying collapse upon spin down.
- Received 15 March 1989
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.3015
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