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We study the neutrino flavor evolution in the neutrino-driven wind from a binary neutron star merger remnant consisting of a massive neutron star surrounded by an accretion disk. With the neutrino emission characteristics and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Maik Frensel , Meng-Ru Wu , Cristina Volpe , Albino Perego

The relative rate of neutron stars and black holes produced by the collapse of massive stars is highly uncertain. We simulate the stellar collapse of $195$ progenitors with masses between $9\, M_\odot$ and $120\, M_\odot$, incorporating a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Mariam Gogilashvili , Irene Tamborra

The gap caused by a strong electric field between the quark surface and nuclear crust of a strange star is studied in an improved model including gravity and pressure as well as electrostatic forces. The transition from gap to crust is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Morten Stejner , Jes Madsen

In this work, we focus on different length scales within the dynamics of nucleons in conditions according to the neutron star crust, with a semiclassical molecular dynamics model, studying isospin symmetric matter at subsaturation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-22 Pablo N. Alcain , Pedro A. Giménez Molinelli , Claudio O. Dorso

Transiently accreting Low Mass X-Ray Binaries have the potential to probe the core composition of their neutron stars via deep crustal heating caused by nuclear reactions. We statistically assess this deep crustal heating scenario, taking…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-14 Kaiser Arf , Kai Schwenzer

We examine the gravitational wave frequencies from neutron stars during thermal evolution, adopting the relativistic Cowling approximation. We particularly focus on the neutron star models, in which the direct Urca (rapid cooling process)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Hajime Sotani , Akira Dohi

The excited-state structure of atomic nuclei can modify nuclear processes in stellar environments. In this work, we study the influence of nuclear excitations on Urca cooling (repeated back-and-forth beta decay and electron capture in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Long-Jun Wang , Liang Tan , Zhipan Li , G. Wendell Misch , Yang Sun

We show that the neutron star in the transient system MXB~1659-29 has a core neutrino luminosity that substantially exceeds that of the modified Urca reactions (i.e., $n+n\to n+p+e^{-}+\bar{\nu}_{e}$ and inverse) and is consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-09 Edward F. Brown , Andrew Cumming , Farrukh J. Fattoyev , C. J. Horowitz , Dany Page , Sanjay Reddy

Consideration of the role of the convective flux in the thermodymics of the convective Urca neutrino loss process in degenerate, convective, quasi-static, carbon-burning cores shows that the convective Urca process slows down the convective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Josef Stein , J. Craig Wheeler

We examine the role of hyperons in a neutron star based on the relativistic mean field approach. For nuclear matter below 1.5 times the normal nuclear density we constrain the model parameters by using the symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 Yeunhwan Lim , Chang-Hwan Lee , Yongseok Oh

We simulate cooling of superfluid neutron stars with nucleon cores where direct Urca process is forbidden. We adopt density dependent critical temperatures $T_{cp}(\rho)$ and $T_{cn}(\rho)$ of singlet-state proton and triplet-state neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Gusakov , A. D. Kaminker , D. G. Yakovlev , O. Y. Gnedin

We study the impact of nonlinear bulk viscosity due to Urca reactions driven by tidally-induced fluid motion during binary neutron star inspiral. Fluid compression is computed for low radial order oscillation modes through an adiabatic,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Phil Arras , Nevin N. Weinberg

We argue that significant probability of protons with momenta above their Fermi surface leads for proton concentrations p/n > 1/8 to the enhancement of termally excited direct and modified URCA processes within a cold neutron star, and to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leonid Frankfurt , Mark Strikman

We investigate the thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars containing hyperon--mixed kaon--condensed matter, focusing on the role of proton superconductivity. The equation of state utilized for cooling calculation is based upon the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Bhavnesh Bhat , Akira Dohi , Takumi Muto , Tsuneo Noda

We study the cooling of isolated dark-matter-admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear equation of state and realistic nuclear pairing gaps, together with fermionic dark matter of variable particle mass and dark-matter fraction.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 B. X. Zhou , H. C. Das , J. B. Wei , G. F. Burgio , Z. H. Li , H. -J. Schulze

The effect of the magnetic field on the energy loss rate in the direct Urca reactions is studied. The general expression for the neutrino emissivity at arbitrary magnetic field B is derived. The main emphasis is laid on a case, in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Baiko , D. G. Yakovlev

Models of neutron stars are considered in the case of a uniform density distribution. An algebraic equation, valid for any equation of state, is obtained. This equation allows one to find the approximate mass of a star of a given density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , E. A. Patraman

A detailed description of the baryon direct Urca processes A: $n\rightarrow p+e+\bar{\nu}_{e}$, B: $\Lambda\rightarrow p+e+\bar{\nu}_{e}$, C: $\Xi^{-}\rightarrow\Lambda+e+\bar{\nu}_{e}$ related to the neutron star cooling is given in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-03 Yan Xu , Xiu Lin Huang , Xiao Jun Zhang , Tmurbagan Bao , Lin Xiao , Cun Bo Fan , Cheng Zhi Liu

Whether fast cooling processes occur or not is crucial for the thermal evolution of neutron stars. In particular, the threshold of the direct Urca process, which is one of the fast cooling processes, is determined by the interior proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-07 Akira Dohi , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Masa-aki Hashimoto , Yasuhide Matsuo , Tsuneo Noda

We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent relativistic $npe\mu$ matter arising from weak-interaction direct Urca processes. This work parallels our recent study of the bulk viscosity of $npe\mu$ matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Mark Alford , Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian