Proto-neutron stars with quark cores
Abstract
This work investigates the evolution of proto-neutron stars (PNSs) from birth as neutrino-rich objects to maturity as cold-catalyzed neutrino-poor objects with nucleonic and non-nucleonic degrees of freedom. The focus is on the star's core where the nucleons, hyperons, and the -isobars are expected to dissolve into a ``soup" of deconfined quarks, at higher baryon densities, to establish a possible hadron-quark phase transition. We separately calculate the nuclear equations of state (EoS) for the hadronic matter (composed of all the baryon octet and -isobars) and the strange quark matter (SQM) under the same thermodynamic conditions characteristic of PNS and proto-strange star (PSS) evolution and construct the hybrid EoS using Maxwell's construction. The study allows us to determine the hadron-quark phase transitions along the evolution lines of the star. We observed a phase transition from hadronic matter to quark matter (QM) phase when the neutrinos have completely escaped from the star's core. The EoSs utilized are constrained to meet the threshold in accordance with the observational data.
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@article{arxiv.2405.10386,
title = {Proto-neutron stars with quark cores},
author = {Adamu Issifu and Débora P. Menezes and Zeinab Rezaei and Tobias Frederico},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10386},
year = {2024}
}
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20 pages, 10 figures