How to identify a Strange Star
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Contrary to young neutron stars, young strange stars are not subject to the r-mode instability which slows rapidly rotating, hot neutron stars to rotation periods near 10 ms via gravitational wave emission. Young millisecond pulsars are therefore likely to be strange stars rather than neutron stars, or at least to contain significant quantities of quark matter in the interior.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9806032,
title = {How to identify a Strange Star},
author = {Jes Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9806032},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure