Thermal Evolution of Compact Stars
Astrophysics
2009-10-28 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
A collection of modern, field-theoretical equations of state is applied to the investigation of cooling properties of compact stars. These comprise neutron stars as well as hypothetical strange matter stars, made up of absolutely stable 3-flavor strange quark matter. Various uncertainties in the behavior of matter at supernuclear densities, e.g., hyperonic degrees of freedom, behavior of coupling strengths in matter, pion and meson condensation, superfluidity, transition to quark matter, absolute stability of strange quark matter, and last but not least the many-body technique itself are tested against the body of observed cooling data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9603142,
title = {Thermal Evolution of Compact Stars},
author = {Ch. Schaab and F. Weber and M. K. Weigel and N. K. Glendenning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9603142},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
41 pages, revised version