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Strange Stars (strange + star)

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Selected Abstracts

Thermal evolution of a rotating strange star in the colour superconductivity phase

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, Issue 4 2006
Xiaoping Zheng
ABSTRACT Under the combination effect of recommencement heating due to the spin-down of strange stars (SSs) and heat preservation due to the weak conduction heat of the crust, Cooper pair breaking and formation (PBF) in colour superconducting quark matter arises. We investigate the cooling of SSs with a crust in the colour superconductivity phase including both deconfinement heating (DH) and the PBF process. We find that DH can delay the thermal evolution of SSs and the PBF process suppresses the early temperature rise of the stars. The cooling SSs behave within the brightness constraint of young compact objects when the colour superconductivity gap is small enough. [source]

Magnetar oscillations pose challenges for strange stars

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: LETTERS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2007
Anna L. Watts
ABSTRACT Compact relativistic stars allow us to study the nature of matter under extreme conditions, probing regions of parameter space that are otherwise inaccessible. Nuclear theory in this regime is not well constrained: one key issue is whether neutron stars are in fact composed primarily of strange quark matter. Distinguishing the two possibilities, however, has been difficult. The recent detection of seismic vibrations in the aftermath of giant flares from two magnetars (highly magnetized compact stars) is a major breakthrough. The oscillations excited seem likely to involve the stellar crust, the properties of which differ dramatically for strange stars. We show that the resulting mode frequencies cannot be reconciled with the observations for reasonable magnetar parameters. Ruling out strange star models would place a strong constraint on models of dense quark matter. [source]