In this work, we use a hybrid equation of state that allows us to choose the smoothness of the quark-hadron phase transition, by choosing the value of a continuous parameter μc
. To describe the hadron phase, we use an equation of state (EoS) based on a chiral effective field theory (cEFT), and for the quark phase we use the equation of state of the MFTQCD (Mean Field Theory of QCD). We solve simultaneously the TOV equations and the tidal deformability equations and contruct the mass-radius and deformability-mass diagrams for several values of the parameter μc
. We find that the curves in these two diagrams are almost insensitive to the smoothness of the phase transition.
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