2006/11/30 by Renxin Xu
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Magnetar #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quark star #Star (game theory) #Stars #Strange matter #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.058
published as Adv.SpaceRes.40:1453-1459,2007 · 13 pages, COSPAR2006 E1.3, accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research
openalex publication_date 2007/01/01 · arxiv created 2007/05/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The magnetar model and a solid quark star model for anomalous X-ray pulsars/soft gamma-ray repeaters (AXPs/SGRs) are discussed. Different manifestations of pulsar-like stars are speculated to be due to both their nature (e.g., mass and strain) and their nurture (ambience, and consequently the type of accretion) in the solid quark star scenario. Relevant arguments made by the author's group, including a debate on solid cold quark matter, are briefly summarized too.