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Pulsar spin frequencies and their time evolution are an important source of information on compact stars and their internal composition. Oscillations of the star can reduce the rotational energy via the emission of gravitational waves. In…

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In this contribution, we extend the discussion about the calculation of the bulk viscosity of quark matter in the normal phase due to electroweak processes and its effect on the damping of baryon density oscillations that might occur in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 José Luis Hernández , Cristina Manuel , Laura Tolos

This work investigates the bulk viscosity of warm, dense, neutrino-transparent, color-superconducting quark matter, where damping of density oscillations in the kHz frequency range arises from weak-interaction-driven direct Urca processes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Mark Alford , Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian , Stefanos Tsiopelas

We study viscosity of the neutron star matter and $r$-mode instability in rotating neutron stars. Contributions to the shear and bulk viscosities from various processes are calculated with account of in-medium modifications of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 E. E. Kolomeitsev , D. N. Voskresensky

We investigate the effect of antikaon condensed matter on bulk viscosity in rotating neutron stars. We use relativistic field theoretical models to construct the equation of state of neutron stars with the condensate, where the phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-31 Debarati Chatterjee , Debades Bandyopadhyay

The observation and distinction of two compact stars with an identical mass but a different radius would be a clear sign of hadron-quark phase transition in nuclear matter. Motivated by studies searching for significant deviations in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 P. Laskos-Patkos , Ch. C. Moustakidis

During the evolution of a pulsar, various phase transitions may occur in its dense interior, such as superfluid transition, as well as transition to various exotic phases of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We propose a technique which allows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-16 Partha Bagchi , Arpan Das , Biswanath Layek , Ajit M. Srivastava

The r-mode instability in rotating compact stars is used to constrain the phase of matter at high density. The color-flavor-locked phase with kaon condensation (CFL-K0) and without (CFL) is considered in the temperature range 10^8K < T…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-02 Gautam Rupak , Prashanth Jaikumar

When the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) - a system of deconfined quarks and gluons - is in a nonequilibrium state, it is usually unstable with respect to color collective modes. The instabilities, which are expected to strongly influence dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Bjoern Schenke , Michael Strickland

We study the bulk viscosity of strange quark matter(SQM) in density dependent quark mass model(DDQM) under the background of self-consistent thermodynamics. The correct formulae, with which the viscosity can be evaluated, are derived. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zheng Xiaoping , Liu Xuewen , Kang Miao , Yang Shuhua

We study the bulk viscosity of strange quark matter (SQM) in a quasiparticle model at finite chemical potential by extrapolating the previous quasiparticle model of finite temperature lattice QCD. The more proper bulk viscosity coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zheng Xiaoping , Kang Miao , Liu Xuewen , Yang Shuhua

The cores of compact stars reach the highest densities in nature and therefore could consist of novel phases of matter. We demonstrate via a detailed analysis of pulsar evolution that precise pulsar timing data can constrain the star's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-24 Mark G. Alford , Kai Schwenzer

We examine the behavior of sound attenuation and bulk viscosity near the 2'nd order QCD phase transition at finite density. A dynamical model is presented describing the coupled evolution of sound mode and a slow mode of fluctuations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 B. O. Kerbikov

We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent color superconducting quark matter arising from weak-interaction-driven direct URCA processes. The quark matter is modeled using the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model…

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The dissipative properties of relativistic strongly interacting nuclear matter significantly influence the damping of stellar oscillations and density fluctuations during compact star mergers. In this work, we derive the evolution equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-18 José Luis Hernandez , Cristina Manuel , Saga Säppi , Laura Tolos

We present the first multi-fluid analysis of a dense neutron star core with a deconfined colour-flavour-locked superconducting quark component. Accounting only for the condensate and (finite temperature) phonons, we make progress by taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 N. Andersson , B. Haskell , G. L. Comer

The main objective of this work is to study the structure, composition, and oscillation modes of color superconducting quark stars with intense magnetic fields. We adopted the MIT bag model within the color superconductivity CFL framework,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Marcos Osvaldo Celi , Mauro Mariani , Milva Gabriela Orsaria , Lucas Tonetto

The conversion of nuclear matter to quark matter in the core of a rotating neutron star alters its moment of inertia. Hence the epoch over which conversion takes place will be signaled in the spin-down "signal_prl.tex" 581 lines, 22203…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Norman K. Glendenning , S. Pei , F. Weber

Superfluid hydrodynamics affects the spin-evolution of mature neutron stars, and may be key to explaining timing irregularities such as pulsar glitches. However, most models for this phenomenon exclude the global instability required to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-27 N. Andersson , K. Glampedakis , M. Hogg

Theoretically, the phase transition between the confined and deconfined phases of quarks can have a remarkable effect on the spin properties of millisecond pulsars and on the spin distribution of the population of x-ray neutron stars in…

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