Neutron Stars—Cooling and Transport

2015/07/17 by Alexander Y. Potekhin, A. Y. Potekhin, José A. Pons +2 · 275 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Blanketing #Neutron #Neutron star #Nucleosynthesis #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Stars #Thermal #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s11214-015-0180-9

published in Space Science Reviews 191(1-4), 239-291 (Springer Science+Business Media) · 57 pages, 3 tables, 12 figures, invited topical review in The Strongest Magnetic Fields in the Universe, eds. V. S. Beskin, A. Balogh, M. Falanga, M. Lyutikov, S. Mereghetti, T. Piran, R. A. Treumann (Space Sciences Series of ISSI, Springer). In v.2, a typo in Eq.(3) is fixed. In v.3, Eqs.(32)-(33) are corrected, and references updated

openalex publication_date 2015/07/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · arxiv created 2017/10/18 · arxiv updated 2017/10/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Observations of thermal radiation from neutron stars can potentially provide information about the states of supranuclear matter in the interiors of these stars with the aid of the theory of neutron-star thermal evolution. We review the basics of this theory for isolated neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, including most relevant thermodynamic and kinetic properties in the stellar core, crust, and blanketing envelopes.

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