Strangelet dwarfs
Nuclear Theory
2015-06-03 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
If the surface tension of quark matter is low enough, quark matter is not self bound. At sufficiently low pressure and temperature, it will take the form of a crystal of positively charged strangelets in a neutralizing background of electrons. In this case there will exist, in addition to the usual family of strange stars, a family of low-mass large-radius objects analogous to white dwarfs, which we call "strangelet dwarfs". Using a generic parametrization of the equation of state of quark matter, we calculate the mass-radius relationship of these objects.
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@article{arxiv.1111.3937,
title = {Strangelet dwarfs},
author = {Mark G. Alford and Sophia Han and Sanjay Reddy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.3937},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, LaTeX, added discussion of CFL phase and strangelet pollution, version to appear in journal. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0808.0671