Speaker
Thomas Carreau
Description
We recently developed a density functional theory based empirical approach using the extended Thomas-Fermi theory, allowing an analytical evaluation of the energy functional of the different components of stellar matter. The main advantage of this unified approach is that the crust-core transition is consistently treated, allowing to estimate upper bounds on observables such as pulsar glitches which are supposed to be sensistive on the crust-core interface. In our poster, we present some preliminary results in the case of non-accreting cold neutron stars.
