Quark matter in compact stars?
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Ozel, in a recent reanalysis of EXO 0748-676 observational data (astro-ph/0605106), concluded that quark matter probably does not exist in the center of compact stars. We show that the data is actually consistent with the presence of quark matter in compact stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606524,
title = {Quark matter in compact stars?},
author = {Mark Alford and David Blaschke and Alessandro Drago and Thomas Klahn and Giuseppe Pagliara and Juergen Schaffner-Bielich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606524},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX; New title and overall rewrite to reflect version published in Nature. Conclusions unchanged