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RX J1856.5-3754: A strange star with solid quark surface?

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Within the realms of the possibility of solid quark matter, we fitted the 500ks Chandra LETG/HRC data for RX J1856.5-3754 with a phenomenological spectral model, and found that electric conductivity of quark matter on the stellar surface is about > 1.2 x 10^{18} s^{-1}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310049,
  title  = {RX J1856.5-3754: A strange star with solid quark surface?},
  author = {X. L. Zhang and R. X. Xu and S. N. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310049},
  year   = {2007}
}

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2 page and no figure, IAU Symposium No.218, or at http://vega.bac.pku.edu.cn/~rxxu/publications/index_C.htm

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