Relativistic Mean Field Models of Neutron Stars

1 Introduction 2 Stellar structure equations 3 Thermodynamic properties of stellar matter 3.1 Photon gas 3.2 Fermion gas 3.2.1 Completely degenerate fermion gas 3.2.2 Partially degenerate fermion gas 3.2.3 Neutrino gas 4 Equation of state of stellar matter 4.1 The ideal classical gas 4.2 The degenerate gas 4.2.1 White dwarfs 4.2.2 Proto-neutron stars 4.2.3 Neutron stars 5 The nuclear equation of state 5.1 Compressibility of nuclear matter 5.2 Nuclear symmetry energy 6 Relativistic mean ?eld model 6.1 Walecka model and its extensions 6.2 Model with nonlinear isoscalar-isovector interaction terms 6.3 Model with ? meson 6.4 Model with nonzero temperature 6.5 Leptons 7 Strange nuclear matter 7.1 The e?ective ?eld theoretical model 8 Properties of nuclear matter 8.1 In?nite symmetric nuclear matter 8.2 In?nite symmetric strange hadronic matter 8.3 Asymmetric nuclear matter 8.4 Asymmetric strangeness-rich matter 9 Neutron star matter 9.1 The equilibrium conditions and composition of stellar matter 9.2 Neutron star matter with zero strangeness 10 Strange neutron star matter 11 Astrophysical constraints on the equation of state 12 Proto-neutron star model 12.1 Neutrino opacities 12.2 The in?uence of neutrino trapping on proto-neutron star properties and evolution 13 Conclusions / Bibliography