From existing and new nuclear and astrophysical constraints to stringent limits on the equation of state of neutron-rich dense matter

Understand

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available.

• To constrain the EOS across its entire density range, this information needs to be combined consistently.
• However, the impact and model-dependency of individual observations vary.
• We present a broad compendium of different constraints and apply them individually to a large set of EOS candidates within a Bayesian framework.