Next: Case A: Up: No Title Previous: Introduction . Let us assume that two neutron stars with masses and are merging. The following state of the after-merging object is determined by the ratio of the resulting total mass and the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit. ... Here and below we interpret the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit not as the standard value derived for the cold equation of state of baryonic matter for a non-rotating neutron star, but as a modified one. ...