摘要：
Abstract:
While analyses of several isospin effects in heavy-ion reactions have allowed us to constrain
significantly the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy at sub-saturation densities,
the new data on pion production from the FOPI/GSI collaboration give us the first experimental
evidence of a softened symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities. Thus, for the first time,
we have a partially constrained equation of state for neutron-rich nuclear matter in a
broad density range. After reviewing this new and exciting progress in isospin physics, we will
examine its impacts on the mass-radius correlation, moment of inertia, elliptical deformation
and gravitational radiation of rapidly rotating neutron stars.

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