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Dilatonic equation of hydrostatic equilibrium and neutron star structure

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In this paper, we present a new hydrostatic equilibrium equation related to dilaton gravity. We consider a spherical symmetric metric to obtain the hydrostatic equilibrium equation of stars in 4-dimensions, and generalize TOV equation to the case of regarding a dilaton field. Then, we calculate the structure properties of neutron star using our obtained hydrostatic equilibrium equation employing the modern equations of state of neutron star matter derived from microscopic calculations. We show that the maximum mass of neutron star depends on the parameters of dilaton field and cosmological constant. In other words, by setting the parameters of new hydrostatic equilibrium equation, we calculate the maximum mass of neutron star.

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We would like to thank the anonymous referees for valuable suggestions. B.E. acknowledges S. Panahiyan and R. Haghbakhsh for helpful discussions. The authors wish to thank Shiraz University Research Council. This work has been supported financially by Research Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Maragha.

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Correspondence to S. H. Hendi.

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Hendi, S.H., Bordbar, G.H., Eslam Panah, B. et al. Dilatonic equation of hydrostatic equilibrium and neutron star structure. Astrophys Space Sci 358, 30 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-015-2429-x

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