Hybrid neutron stars among mass gap objects are excluded by twin stars at 1.4,M

arXiv:2606.02593 · astro-ph.HE, hep-ph, nucl-th · Submitted 2026-05-21 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, hep-ph, nucl-th

Submitted: 2026-05-21

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Phase Transition — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Multi-messenger Astronomy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Revisiting the Rhoades-Ruffini bound
• Strong model-agnostic constraints for twin-star solutions

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