https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6691-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Moment of inertia–mass universal relations for neutron stars in scalar-tensor theory with self-interacting massive scalar field
1
Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria
2
Theoretical Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
3
INRNE, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria
4
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Street 8, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
* e-mail: kstaykov@phys.uni-sofia.bg
Received:
9
December
2018
Accepted:
15
February
2019
Published online:
26
February
2019
We are investigating universal relations between different normalisations of the moment of inertia and the compactness of neutron stars in slow rotation approximation. We study the relations in particular class of massive scalar-sensor theories with self-interaction, for which significant deviations from General Relativity are allowed for values of the parameters that are in agreement with the observations. Moment of inertia-compactness relations are examined for different normalisation of the moment of inertia. It is shown that for all studied cases the deviations from EOS universality are small for the examined equations of state. On the other hand the scalarization can lead to large deviations from the general relativistic universal relations for values of the parameters that are in agreement with the current observations that can be potentially used to set further test the scalar-tensor theories.
© The Author(s), 2019
