Motivated by a recent astrophysical measurement of the pressure of cold matter above nuclear-matter saturation density, we compute the equation of state of neutron-star matter using accurately calibrated relativistic models. The uniform stellar core is assumed to consist of nucleons and leptons in beta equilibrium; no exotic degrees of freedom are included. We found the predictions of these models to be in fairly good agreement with the measured equation of state. Yet the mass-versus-radius relations predicted by these same models display radii that are consistently larger than the observations.

• Received 5 March 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.82.025805