Constantinos Constantinou
- ECT* Postdoc
Education: PhD., Stony Brook University, 2013
Research Interests: Nuclear Astrophysics. In particular,
– Hadronic and quark matter in core-collapse supernovae, neutron stars, and their mergers
– Composition, structure, and thermal evolution of neutron stars
Current Projects:
– Beyond mean-field treatment of the nuclear equation of state
– Role of pions in hot and dense matter
– Quarkyonic matter and the cooling of protoneutron stars
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Treating quarks within neutron stars, S. Han, M. A. A. Mamun, S. Lalit, C. Constantinou and M. Prakash,
Phys. Rev. D 100, 103022 (2019).
2. The APR equation of state for simulations of supernovae, neutron stars and binary mergers, A. S. Schneider,
C. Constantinou, B. Muccioli and M. Prakash, Phys. Rev. C 100, 025803 (2019).
3. Dense matter equation of state for neutron star mergers, S. Lalit, M. A. Al Mamun, C. Constantinou and
M. Prakash, Eur. Phys. J. A 55, 10 (2019).
4. Pairing properties from random distributions of single-particle energy levels, M. A. Al Mamun,
C. Constantinou and M. Prakash, Phys. Rev. C 97, 064324 (2018).
5. Enforcing causality in nonrelativistic equations of state at finite temperature,
C. Constantinou and M. Prakash, Phys. Rev. C 95, 055802 (2017).
6. Degenerate limit thermodynamics beyond leading order for models of dense matter, C. Constantinou,
B. Muccioli, M. Prakash and J. M. Lattimer, Ann. Phys. 363, 533-555 (2015).
7. Thermal properties of supernova matter: The bulk homogeneous phase, C. Constantinou, B. Muccioli,
M. Prakash and J. M. Lattimer, Phys. Rev. C 89, 065802 (2014).