New answers tagged

9 votes

According to this article the max mass of a non-spinning neutron star is around 2.5 solar masses. What is defined as a non-rotating neutron star?

HDE226868's answer is fine and I won't repeat that. However, an answer to your headline question is that a non-rotating neutron star is effectively one where the rotation does not significantly alter ...
ProfRob's user avatar
  • 151k
18 votes

According to this article the max mass of a non-spinning neutron star is around 2.5 solar masses. What is defined as a non-rotating neutron star?

The paper (arXiv version) actually finds a mass limit of $M_{\mathrm{TOV}}=2.25^{+0.08}_{-0.07}M_{\odot}$; it is believed that above this limit, subject to some caveats, a neutron star would further ...
HDE 226868's user avatar
  • 36.5k

Top 50 recent answers are included