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I was wondering, does anyone know of a lower limit on the mass of a neutron star from fundamental physics? That is, the smallest it could be before its pressure would make it explode.
I don't mean the Chandrasekhar limit, as that's the upper limit for a white dwarf. Neutron stars occurring "in the wild" probably can't be too much smaller than this, as they would never have collapsed to a neutron star in the first place, but ignoring that fact, might much-smaller neutron stars be stable if they could somehow be created?
I don't mean the Chandrasekhar limit, as that's the upper limit for a white dwarf. Neutron stars occurring "in the wild" probably can't be too much smaller than this, as they would never have collapsed to a neutron star in the first place, but ignoring that fact, might much-smaller neutron stars be stable if they could somehow be created?