• Ab-initio QCD Calculations Impact the Inference of the Neutron-star-matter Equation of State 

      Gorda, Tyler; Komoltsev, Oleg; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We demonstrate that ab-initio calculations in QCD at high densities offer significant and nontrivial information about the equation of state of matter in the cores of neutron stars, going beyond that which is obtainable ...
    • Constraints on Strong Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars 

      Gorda, T.; Hebeler, K.; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Schwenk, A.; Vuorinen, A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We study current bounds on strong first-order phase transitions (PTs) along the equation of state (EOS) of dense strongly interacting matter in neutron stars, under the simplifying assumption that on either side of the PT, ...