Ultra-compact twin stars with hybrid equations of state from bosonic dark matter

arXiv:2609.03964 · astro-ph.HE, hep-ph, nucl-th · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

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

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Terminology

• Core — 59× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• First-Order Transition — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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