The Neutron Star Outer Crust Equation of State: A Machine Learning approach

Understand

Constructing the outer crust of the neutron stars requires the knowledge of the Binding Energy (BE) of the atomic nuclei.

• Although the BE of a lot of the nuclei is experimentally determined and can be obtained from the AME data table, for the others we need to depend on theoretical models.
• There exist a lot of physical theories to predict the BE, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
• In this paper, we apply Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on AME2016 data set to predict the Binding Energy {of atomic nuclei}.