Stability of Strange Stars (SS) Derived from a Realistic Equation of State

A realistic EOS (equation of state) leads to strange stars (ReSS) which are compact in the mass–radius (M–R) plot, close to the Schwarzschild limiting line.1 Many of the observed stars fit in with this kind of compactness, irrespective of whether they are X-ray pulsars, bursters or soft γ repeaters or even radio pulsars. We point out that a change in the radius of a star can be small or large, when its mass is increasing and this depends on the position of a particular star on the M–R curve. We carry out a stability analysis against radial oscillations and compare with the EOS of other SS models. We find that the ReSS is stable and an M–R region can be identified to that effect.

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