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Bulk viscosity of superfluid hyperon stars

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculated bulk viscosity due to non-equilibrium weak processes in superfluid nucleon-hyperon matter of neutron stars. For that, the dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics, formulated in paper [1] for superfluid mixtures, was extended to the case when both nucleons and hyperons are superfluid. It was demonstrated that in the most general case (when neutrons, protons, Lambda, and Sigma^{-} hyperons are superfluid), non-equilibrium weak processes generate sixteen bulk viscosity coefficients, with only three of them being independent. In addition, we corrected an inaccuracy in a widely used formula for the bulk viscosity of non-superfluid nucleon-hyperon matter.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4914,
  title  = {Bulk viscosity of superfluid hyperon stars},
  author = {M. E. Gusakov and E. M. Kantor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4914},
  year   = {2008}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures

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