Fast pulsars, compact stars, and the strange matter hypothesis
Conference
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OSTI ID:10161311
- Muenchen Univ. (Germany). Inst. fuer Theoretische Physik
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
Part one of this paper deals with the recent finding of the possible existence of a mixed phase of baryon matter and quark matter inside neutron stars. In part two we review the theoretically determined minimum rotational periods of neutron stars, which serve to distinguish between pulsars that can be understood as rotating neutron stars and those that can not. Likely candidates for the latter are hypothetical strange stars. Their mass-radius relationship is discussed in the last part. It is pointed out that strange stars with a nuclear crust can give rise to the observed phenomena of pulsar glitches, thus passing the only astrophysical test of the strange-matter hypothesis existing to date.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 10161311
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-33771; CONF-9301109-3; ON: DE93015039; TRN: 93:015342
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. international conference on physics and astrophysics of quark-gluon plasma,Calcutta (India),19-23 Jan 1993; Other Information: PBD: 17 Mar 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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