Theory of cooling neutron stars versus observations
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We review current state of neutron star cooling theory and discuss the prospects to constrain the equation of state, neutrino emission and superfluid properties of neutron star cores by comparing the cooling theory with observations of thermal radiation from isolated neutron stars.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.2047,
title = {Theory of cooling neutron stars versus observations},
author = {D. G. Yakovlev and O. Y. Gnedin and A. D. Kaminker and A. Y. Potekhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2047},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, to appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars" held in Montreal, Canada, August 12-17, 2007, eds. C. Bassa, Z. Wang, A. Cumming, V. Kaspi, AIP, in press (v.2 - minor bibliography corrections)