2006/03/31 by Ignazio Bombaci, I. Bombaci, G. Lugones +2 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065259
published as Astron.Astrophys. 462 (2007) 1017-1022 · Version to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
arxiv created 2006/10/04 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Aims.We study the nucleation of quark matter drops at the center of cold deleptonized neutron stars. These drops can be made up of unpaired quark matter or of color-superconducting quark matter, depending on the details of the equations of state for quark and hadronic matter. The nature of the nucleated phase is relevant in determining the critical mass Mcr of hadronic stars above which a transition to a quark star (strange or hybrid) is possible.