Rotochemical Heating of Neutron Stars: Rigorous Formalism with Electrostatic Potential Perturbations

2006/06/13 by Andreas Reisenegger, Paula Jofre, Rodrigo Fernandez +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Electric potential #Formalism (music) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Neutron #Neutron star #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph #gr-qc #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/506601

published as Astrophys.J.653:568-572,2006 · 14 pages, including 4 eps figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Abstract

The electrostatic potential that keeps approximate charge neutrality in neutron star matter is self-consistently introduced into the formalism for "rotochemical heating" presented in a previous paper by Fernández and Reisenegger. Although the new formalism is more rigorous, we show that its observable consequences are indistinguishable from those of the previous one, leaving the conclusions of the previous paper unchanged.

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