Temperature and density dependence of asymmetric nuclear matter and protoneutron star properties within an extended relativistic mean field model

TL;DR

This study investigates how temperature and density affect asymmetric nuclear matter and protoneutron star properties using an extended relativistic mean field model, revealing temperature-dependent changes in symmetry energy, star mass, and rotation limits.

Contribution

It introduces new parametrizations within the ERMF model to analyze temperature effects on nuclear matter and protoneutron star equations of state, including hyperon contributions.

Findings

Symmetry energy decreases with temperature up to saturation density.

Protoneutron star mass increases by approximately 0.4 solar masses at finite temperature.

Rotating PNS keplerian frequency decreases by 14-20% at T=10 MeV compared to cold stars.

Abstract

The effect of temperature and density dependence of the asymmetric nuclear matter properties is studied within the extended relativistic mean field (ERMF) model, which includes the contribution from the self and mixed interaction terms by using different parametrizations obtained by varying the neutron skin thickness $\Delta$r and $\omega$-meson self-coupling ($\zeta$). We observed that the symmetry energy and its slope and incompressibility coefficients decrease with increasing temperatures up to saturation densities. The ERMF parametrizations were employed to obtain a new set of equations of state (EOS) of the protoneutron star (PNS) with and without inclusion of hyperons. In our calculations, in comparison with cold compact stars, we obtained that the gravitational mass of the protoneutron star with and without hyperons increased by $\sim 0.4M_{\odot}$ and its radius increased by $\sim 3$km. Whereas in case of the rotating PNS, the mass shedding limit decreased with increasing temperature, and this suggested that the keplerian frequency of the PNS, at T = 10 MeV should be smaller by $14-20%$ for the EOS with hyperon, as compared to the keplerian frequency of a cold compact star.