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It is believed that quark matter can exist in neutron star interior if the baryon density is high enough. When there is a large isospin density, quark matter could be in a pion condensed phase. We compute neutrino emission from direct Urca…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Xuguang Huang , Qun Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

We study the cooling of superfluid neutron stars whose cores consist of nucleon matter with the Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall equation of state. This equation of state opens the powerful direct Urca process of neutrino emission in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. E. Gusakov , A. D. Kaminker , D. G. Yakovlev , O. Y. Gnedin

We study the bulk viscosity in neutron star cores due to modified Urca processes involving nucleons, electrons and muons and analize its reduction by singlet-state or triplet-state superfluidity of nucleons. In combination with the results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Haensel , K. P. Levenfish , D. G. Yakovlev

We study thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories for the first time. Whether the rapid cooling due to the direct Urca process occurs or not is an interesting question in the viewpoint of the temperature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-27 Akira Dohi , Ryotaro Kase , Rampei Kimura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Masa-aki Hashimoto

In this work we revisit the thermal relaxation process for neutron stars. Such process is associated with the thermal coupling between the core and the crust of neutron stars. The thermal relaxation, which takes place at around 10 -- 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Thiago Sales , Odilon Lourenço , Mariana Dutra , Rodrigo Negreiros

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

The nuclear symmetry energy and its behaviour with density has been recently evaluated with enhanced value by PREX-2 experiment. This new values enables direct Urca neutrino emission process to be functioning in the dense matter inside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Trisha Sarkar , Vivek Baruah Thapa , Monika Sinha

Superbursts of neutron stars are rare but powerful events explained by the explosive burning of carbon in the deep layers of the outer envelope of the star. In this paper we perform a simulation of superbursts and propose a simple method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-01 A. D. Kaminker , A. Y. Potekhin , D. G. Yakovlev

Neutrino emissivities due to direct Urca processes of several spin-one color-superconducting phases of dense quark matter are calculated. In particular, the role of anisotropies and nodes of the gap functions is analyzed. Results for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Schmitt , Igor A. Shovkovy , Qun Wang

An accretion outburst onto a neutron star deposits hydrogen-rich and/or helium-rich material into the neutron star's envelope. Thermonuclear burning of accreted material robustly produces Urca pairs\textrm{---}pairs of nuclei that undergo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Alex Deibel , Zach Meisel , Hendrik Schatz , Edward F. Brown , Andrew Cumming

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

The cooling theory of isolated neutron stars is reviewed. The main cooling regulators are discussed, first of all, operation of direct Urca process (or similar processes in exotic phases of dense matter) and superfluidity in stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. G. Yakovlev , O. Y. Gnedin , A. D. Kaminker , K. P. Levenfish , A. Y. Potekhin

We study the thermal evolution of hypernuclear compact stars constructed from covariant density functional theory of hypernuclear matter and parameterizations which produce sequences of stars containing two-solar-mass objects. For the input…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Adriana R. Raduta , Armen Sedrakian , Fridolin Weber

Modelling of crust heating and cooling across multiple accretion outbursts of the low mass X-ray binary MXB 1659-29 indicates that the neutrino luminosity of the neutron star core is consistent with direct Urca reactions occurring in $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-21 Melissa Mendes , Farrukh J. Fattoyev , Andrew Cumming , Charles Gale

We calculate and provide analytic fits of the factors which describe the reduction of the neutrino emissivity of modified Urca and nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung processes by superfluidity of neutrons and protons in neutron-star cores. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 M. E. Gusakov

The interaction of neutrinos with nucleons in the envelope of a remnant of collapse with a strong magnetic field during the passage of the main neutrino flux is investigated. General expressions are derived for the reaction rates and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. A. Gvozdev , I. S. Ognev

We calculate the neutrino production cross-section through the direct URCA process in proto-neutron star matter in the presence of a strong magnetic field. We assume isoentropic conditions and introduce a new equation of state parameter-set…

We investigate the impact of charged current neutrino processes on the formation and evolution of neutrino spectra during the deleptonization of proto-neutron stars. To this end we develop the full kinematics of these reaction rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-21 Tobias Fischer , Gang Guo , Alan A. Dzhioev , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo , Meng-Ru Wu , Andreas Lohs , Yong-Zhong Qian

This review demonstrates that neutrino emission from dense hadronic component in neutron stars is subject of strong modifications due to collective effects in the nuclear matter. With the most important in-medium processes incorporated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Dmitri N. Voskresensky

The bulk viscosity of the neutron star matter due to the direct Urca processes involving nucleons, electrons and muons is studied taking into account possible superfluidity of nucleons in the neutron star cores. The cases of singlet-state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-13 P. Haensel , K. P. Levenfish , D. G. Yakovlev