Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition

K. -W. Wong; M. -C. Chu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.063004

Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Authors: K. -W. Wong , M. -C. Chu

View on arXiv ↗ PDF ↗ DOI ↗

Abstract

We study the cooling behaviour of an isolated strange quark star, using an equation of state derived from perturbative QCD up to second order in strong coupling constant, and we compare it with that of a neutron star. After an initial rapid cooling, a quark star may undergo the QCD phase transition to become a neutron star. We propose several signatures for such a scenario: a large amount of energy can be released due to latent heat, a long duration $\gamma$ -ray source, and a second neutrino burst after a supernova explosion.

Keywords

cooling behavior strange quark star QCD phase transition neutron star latent heat neutrino burst

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405601,
  title  = {Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition},
  author = {K. -W. Wong and M. -C. Chu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405601},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. Deleted a section related to static structure.Very minor updated the results without changing the conclusions.This is the final submitted version after all the proof read processes

Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition

Abstract

Keywords

Cite

Comments

Related papers