Comment on Stellar structure and stability of charged interacting quark stars and their scaling behavior

Abstract

We comment on an error in the charged quark star literature ( Phys. Rev. D, 102(3):034031, 2020 ) that resulted in erroneous solutions to the radial stability equations for charged interacting quark stars in ( Phys. Rev. D, 104(12):123007, 2021 )[2]. In this comment article we recalculate the fundamental radial eigenfrequencies for charged, interacting quark stars in general relativity and discuss any departure from previous results [2]. Most of the qualitative trends persist, but the magnitudes of the separation between the maximum mass and stability points on a given branch can change significantly. We also note that all branches in [2] that contained no stable solutions now have stable solutions in their corrected counterparts. The net effect is that in all of the studied cases charged quark stars have a greater range of stability than originally predicted. We also compare four recent observational constraints not included in previous studies, and find that these constraints are satisfied by a subset of the mass-radius relations we obtain.