Superfluidity in relativistic neutron stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 Superconductivity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The purpose of these notes is to give a brief review of superfluidity in neutron stars. After a short presentation explaining why and how superfluidity is expected in the crust and core of neutron stars, consequences on thermal evolution and rotational dynamics are discussed. The second part summarizes a formalism that has been recently developped to describe the hydrodynamics of superfluids or superconductors in the framework of general relativity. As an application, one can compute the oscillations of a two-component relativistic neutron star.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0008161,
title = {Superfluidity in relativistic neutron stars},
author = {David Langlois},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0008161},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Invited talk at the conference "Vortices in unconventional superconductors and superfluids" in Dresden (2000); 16 pages, 2 figures, LateX