2001/12/04 by Fridolin Weber
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
published as eConf C010815 (2002) 17-28 · Paper presented at the int. conference "Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram", held in Copenhagen (NORDITA - Niels Bohr Institute), August 15-18, 2001; organized by Rachid Ouyed and Francesco Sannino; (12 pages, 6 figures)
arxiv created 2001/12/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
This paper discusses several most intruigung astrophysical implications connected with the possible absolute stability of strange quark matter.This is followed by a discussion of two astrophysical signals that may point at the existence of quark matter in both isolated neutron stars as well as in neutron stars in low-mass x-ray binaries (LMXBs).