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Title: Maximum rotation frequency of strange stars

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)
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  1. Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18, PL-00-716 Warsaw (Poland)

Using the MIT bag model of strange-quark matter, we calculate the maximum angular frequency of the uniform rotation of strange stars. After studying a broad range of the MIT bag-model parameters, we obtain an upper bound of 12.3 kHz.

OSTI ID:
6710806
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Vol. 42:2; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English