Collective excitations in neutron-star crusts
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2013-10-16 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We explore the spectrum of low-energy collective excitations in the crust of a neutron star, especially in the inner region where neutron-proton clusters are immersed in a sea of superfluid neutrons. The speeds of the different modes are calculated systematically from the nuclear energy density functional theory using a Skyrme functional fitted to essentially all experimental atomic mass data.
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@article{arxiv.1310.4059,
title = {Collective excitations in neutron-star crusts},
author = {N. Chamel and D. Page and S. Reddy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4059},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, proceeding of the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI conference, Lisbon, May 19-24 2013