Thermal Evolution of Strange Stars

We have investigated the thermal evolution of rotating strange stars with the deconfinement heating due to magnetic braking. We consider stars consisting of either normal quark matter or a color-flavor-locked phase. Combining deconfinement heating with magnetic-field decay, we find that the thermal...

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Published in:Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2007-12, Vol.119 (862), p.1367-1370
Main Authors: Zhou, Xia, Wang, Lingzhi, Zhou, Aizhi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomy
Compact stars
Cooling
Earth, ocean, space
Emissivity
Exact sciences and technology
Magnetic fields
Pulsars
Quark stars
Quarks
Stars
Stellar evolution
Stellar rotation
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Summary:We have investigated the thermal evolution of rotating strange stars with the deconfinement heating due to magnetic braking. We consider stars consisting of either normal quark matter or a color-flavor-locked phase. Combining deconfinement heating with magnetic-field decay, we find that the thermal evolution curves are identical to those from pulsar data, solving the problem of scarce data for old strange stars.
ISSN:0004-6280
1538-3873
DOI:10.1086/524711