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Deconfinement signals from pulsar timing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The occurence of a quark matter core in rotating compact stars has been investigated within general relativity as a function of both the rotational frequency and the total baryon number. We demonstrate that the deviation of the braking index from n = 3 signals not only the occurence but also the size of a quark matter core in a pulsar. We suggest that in systems with mass accretion onto a rapidly rotating compact star a spin-down to spin-up transition might signal a deconfinement transition in its interior.
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- Part 9. Population and Neutron Star Properties
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 603 - 604
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000
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