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Nature of fault planes in solid neutron star matter

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The properties of tectonic earthquake sources are compared with those deduced here for fault planes in solid neutron-star matter. The conclusion that neutron-star matter cannot exhibit brittle fracture at any temperature or magnetic field is significant for current theories of pulsar glitches, and of the anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft-gamma repeaters.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210207,
  title  = {Nature of fault planes in solid neutron star matter},
  author = {P. B. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210207},
  year   = {2009}
}

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