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View SchemaHybrid stars that masquerade as neutron stars
| Authors | Mark Alford, Matt Braby, Mark Paris, Sanjay Reddy |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0411016 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0411016 |
| DOI | 10.1086/430902 |
| Journal | Astrophys.J.629:969-978,2005 |
Abstract
We show that a hybrid (nuclear + quark matter) star can have a mass-radius relationship very similar to that predicted for a star made of purely nucleonic matter. We show this for a generic parameterization of the quark matter equation of state, and also for an MIT bag model, each including a phenomenological correction based on gluonic corrections to the equation of state. We obtain hybrid stars as heavy as 2 M_solar for reasonable values of the bag model parameters. For nuclear matter, we use the equation of state calculated by Akmal, Pandharipande, and Ravenhall using many-body techniques. Both mixed and homogeneous phases of nuclear and quark matter are considered.
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"title": "Hybrid stars that masquerade as neutron stars",
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