Towards understanding astrophysical effects of nuclear symmetry energy Bao-An Li, Plamen G. Krastev, De-Hua Wen and Nai-Bo Zhang Eur. Phys. J. A, 55 7 (2019) 117 Published online: 25 July 2019 DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2019-12780-8