TOV

Tolman-Volkoff-Oppenheimer solver for neutron star structure

A simple python project that implements a TOV solver to solve relativistic hydrostatic equilibrium equations. Additionally, some general equations of states for the ultra-dense matter are given.

Main code is in tov.py

Additionally

• eoslib.py gives polytropic indices for some general EoSs (from Read et al 2009)
• crust.py neutron star crust EoS
• polytropes.py internal monotrope and polytrope class
• units.py some (cgs) units for computations