Description
We study the global properties of neutron stars obtained with the Brussels-Montreal equations of state (EoSs). These EoSs, which provide a unified description of all regions of a neutron star, are based on the generalised Skyrme functionals BSk19, BSk20, and BSk21. The neutron-star properties thus obtained are compared with various astrophysical observations. We find that only the stiffest EoS, based on the functional BSk21, is at least marginally compatible with all the constraints inferred from these observations.
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