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Binary Compact Star Mergers and the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics

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This article is dedicated to one of my doctor fathers, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Walter Greiner, whom I first met during my undergraduate studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1990. During this time Walter Greiner gave his legendary 5-semester course on theoretical physics and I had the fortune to be able to attend his first lecture on Mechanic I. Greiner’s fashion and manner of presenting the philosophical and mathematical backgrounds of theoretical physics in a detailed way was outstanding. I also enjoyed his interposed personal stories on topics like e.g. scientific conferences and the wilderness of Africa’s nature. Between 1998 and 2004 I worked as a doctoral student in his large international group in the Institute of Theoretical Physics (Campus Bockenheim). The present article summarizes some of the scientific results I have obtained during this period under his supervision.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We note that during the time of achieving these results the current observational constraint on the observed maximum mass in neutron stars, i.e., \(2.01\pm 0.04M_\odot \) [38] were not known.

  2. 2.

    During the time of my diploma-studies at the University Konstanz I was not aware that W. Greiner and H. Dehnen had been dear friends since the days of joint graduate time at the Freiburg University 60 years ago.

  3. 3.

    It needed almost 15 years that these estimates were confirmed by the numerical simulations of Bauswein et al. [48].

  4. 4.

    In a corotating frame the Diskofox looks more like a West Cost Swing dance and the merger snapshot can be regarded as the first “sugar push” of the West Cost Swing couple.

  5. 5.

    However, the color of this frozen picture will be infinitely red-shifted quite rapidly.

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We thank L. Bovard, J. Steinheimer, A. Motornenko, E. Most, J. Papenfort, S. Schramm, E. Bratkovskaya and L. Rezzolla for their scientific contributions.

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Hanauske, M., Stöcker, H. (2020). Binary Compact Star Mergers and the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics. In: Kirsch, J., Schramm, S., Steinheimer-Froschauer, J., Stöcker, H. (eds) Discoveries at the Frontiers of Science. FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34234-0_10

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