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We study the thermal evolution of neutron stars in the presence of hyperons or kaons in the core. Our results indicate that the nucleon and hyperon direct Urca processes play crucial roles for the cooling of neutron stars. The presence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-09 Yeunhwan Lim , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

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 are investigating mass fractions on the crust of a neutron star which would remain after one year of cooling. We use cooling curves corresponding with various densities, or depths, of the neutron star just after its formation. We assume…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kelsey L. Hoffman , Jeremy S. Heyl

With an average density higher than the nuclear density, neutron stars (NS) provide a unique test-ground for nuclear physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and nuclear superfluidity. Determination of the fundamental interactions that govern…

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

An ambitious goal of the astrophysical community is not only to constrain the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter by confronting it with astrophysics observations, but ultimately also to infer the NS composition.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

We study the systematics of neutron star cooling curves with three representative masses from the most populated interval of the estimated mass distribution for compact objects. The cooling simulations are made in the framework of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hovik Grigorian

We analyze cooling of neutron stars, assuming the presence of localized protons in the densest region of their cores. Choosing a single threshold density for proton localization and adjusting neutron star mass, we reproduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Baiko , P. Haensel

We study the cooling of isolated neutron stars. The main cooling regulators are introduced: EoS, thermal transport, heat capacity, neutrino and photon emissivity, superfluid nucleon gaps. Neutrino emissivity includes main processes. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Blaschke , H. Grigorian , D. N. Voskresensky

We study the effects of heat blanketing envelopes of neutron stars on their cooling. To this aim, we perform cooling simulations using newly constructed models of the envelopes composed of binary ion mixtures (H--He, He--C, C--Fe) varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 M. V. Beznogov , M. Fortin , P. Haensel , D. G. Yakovlev , J. L. Zdunik

Neutron stars provide unique laboratories for probing physics of dense nuclear matter under extreme conditions. Their thermal and luminosity evolution reflects key internal properties such as the equation of state (EoS), nucleon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Yoonhak Nam , Kazuyuki Sekizawa

The study of thermal emission from isolated, cooling neutron stars plays a key role in probing the physical conditions of both the star crust and the core. The comparison of theoretical models for the star thermal evolution with the surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Popov , H. Grigorian , R. Turolla , D. Blaschke

We study the effect of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs). No interaction between DM and baryonic matter is assumed, except the gravitational one. Using the two-fluid formalism, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-08 Afonso Ávila , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

We study different stages of the neutron star cooling by computing neutron star properties at various temperatures and entropies using an effective chiral model including hadronic and quark degrees of freedom. Macroscopic properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 V. Dexheimer , S. Schramm

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

The Cosmic Neutrino Background (C$\nu$B) constitutes the last observable prediction of the standard cosmological model, which has yet to be detected directly. In this work, we show how the coherent scattering of neutrinos off dense neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Garv Chauhan

We study the heat capacity and neutrino emission reactions (direct and modified Urca processes, nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung, Cooper pairing of nucleons) in matter of supranuclear density of the neutron star cores with superfluid neutrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 D. G. Yakovlev , K. P. Levenfish , Yu. A. Shibanov

The physics of compact objects is one of the very actively developing branches of theoretical investigations, since the careful analysis of different models for the internal structure of these objects, their evolutionary characteristics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hovik Grigorian

We investigate the impacts of neutrino cooling mechanism inside the neutron star (NS) core on the light curves of type-I X-ray bursts and X-ray superbursts. From several observations of NS thermal evolution, physical processes of fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-21 Akira Dohi , Nobuya Nishimura , Hajime Sotani , Tsuneo Noda , Helei Liu , Shigehiro Nagataki , Masa-aki Hashimoto

Within the "nuclear medium cooling" scenario of neutron stars all reliably known temperature - age data, including those of the central compact objects in the supernova remnants of Cassiopeia A and XMMU-J1732, can be comfortably explained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-04 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , D. N. Voskresensky