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We develop the formalism for determining the quasinormal modes of general relativistic multi-fluid compact stars in such a way that the impact of superfluid gap data can be assessed. Our results represent the first attempt to study true…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lap-Ming Lin , N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

Neutron stars are among the most fascinating astrophysical sources, being characterized by strong gravity, densities about the nuclear one or even above, and huge magnetic fields. Their observational signatures can be extremely diverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-06 L. Del Zanna , A. G. Pili , B. Olmi , N. Bucciantini , E. Amato

Nucleonic matter is described within a su(2) extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. Several parametrizations with different nuclear matter saturation properties are proposed. At subsaturation, nuclear pasta phases are calculated within two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-27 Helena Pais , Débora P. Menezes , Constança Providência

The analogs of r-modes in superfluid neutron stars are studied here. These modes, which are governed primarily by the Coriolis force, are identical to their ordinary-fluid counterparts at the lowest order in the small angular-velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lee Lindblom , Gregory Mendell

Neutron superfluidity in the inner crust of a neutron star is further investigated, focusing on the role of the interband response in the superfluid fraction and the effective mass of crustal ions induced by their motion through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Nicolas Chamel

Cooling of neutron stars (NSs) with the cores composed of neutrons, protons, and electrons is simulated assuming $^1$S$_0$ pairing of neutrons in the NS crust, and also $^1$S$_0$ pairing of protons and weak $^3$P$_2$ pairing of neutrons in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Kaminker , D. G. Yakovlev , O. Y. Gnedin

Neutron stars are astrophysical laboratories of many extremes of physics. Their rich phenomenology provides insights into the state and composition of matter at densities which cannot be reached in terrestrial experiments. Since the core of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Vanessa Graber , Nils Andersson , Michael Hogg

Cooling simulations of neutron stars (NSs) are performed assuming that stellar cores consist of neutrons, protons and electrons and using realistic density profiles of superfluid critical temperatures $T_{cn}(\rho)$ and $T_{cp}(\rho)$ of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. D. Kaminker , P. Haensel , D. G. Yakovlev

Static and dynamic properties of low density outer envelopes of neutron stars are calculated within the nonlinear magnetic Thomas-Fermi model, assuming degenerate electrons. A novel domain decomposition enables proper description of lattice…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Tyler A. Engstrom , Vincent H. Crespi , Benjamin J. Owen , James Brannick , Xiaozhe Hu

We study the entrainment effect between superfluid neutrons and charge neutral fluid (called the proton fluid) which is made of protons and electrons in neutron star interior within the two fluid formalism and using a relativistic model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 Apurba Kheto , Debades Bandyopadhyay

There is ${}^3P_2$ neutron superfluid region in NS (neutron star) interior. For a rotating NS, the ${}^3P_2$ superfluid region is like a system of rotating magnetic dipoles. It will give out electromagnetic radiation, which may provides a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hao Tong , Qiu-he Peng , Hua Bai

We study a type of particle acceleration that operates via neutron-proton conversion in inelastic nuclear collisions. This mechanism can be expected for relativistic shocks at subphotospheres if relativistic outflows contain neutrons. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Kazumi Kashiyama , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

We investigate the slowly rotating general relativistic superfluid neutron stars including the entrainment effect in a two-fluid model, where one fluid represents the superfluid neutrons and the other is the charge-neutral fluid called the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Apurba Kheto , Debades Bandyopadhyay

In this chapter, we present a brief and non-exhaustive review of the developments of theoretical models for accretion flows around neutron stars. A somewhat chronological summary of crucial observations and modelling of timing and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-08 Ayan Bhattacharjee

We formulate a low energy effective theory describing phases of matter that are both solid and superfluid. These systems simultaneously break translational symmetry and the phase symmetry associated with particle number. The symmetries…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Sanjay Reddy , Rishi Sharma

At very high densities, as for example in the core of a neutron star, matter may appear in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase, which is a superfluid. This phase features topologically stable vortex solutions, which arise in a spinning…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Mark G. Alford , Andreas Windisch

I study the dynamics of a superfluid vortex in a random potential, as in the inner crust of a neutron star. Below a critical flow velocity of the ambient superfluid, a vortex is effectively immobilized by lattice forces even in the limit of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bennett Link

We calculate the spectrum of inertial oscillation modes in a slowly rotating superfluid neutron star, including, for the first time, both the effects of finite temperatures and entrainment between superfluid neutrons and protons. We work in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Vasiliy A. Dommes , Elena M. Kantor , Mikhail E. Gusakov

Being born hot from core-collapse supernova, the crust of the proto-neutron star is expected to be made of a Coulomb liquid and composed of an ensemble of different nuclear species. In this work, we study the beta-equilibrated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

The dynamics of quantised vorticity in neutron star interiors is at the heart of most pulsar glitch models. However, the large number of vortices (up to $\approx 10^{13}$) involved in a glitch and the huge disparity in scales between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Vadym Khomenko , Brynmor Haskell