Gravitational mass M_G as a function of the baryonic mass M_B for our EOS model. The red dashed line represents the protoneutron star (PNS) sequence calculated using the isoentropic EOS with S/A = 2 and trapped neutrinos with Y_le = 0.33. The black continuous line represents the cold deleptonized NS sequence calculated using the T = 0.1 MeV EOS for neutrino-free matter. The end point on each curve represents the corresponding maximum mass configuration. The values of these quantities for the present BLh EOS model are reported in Table 2. The asterisk on the black continuous line represents the effective maximum mass for the cold deleptonized NS sequence (see text for more details).