Medium effects in cooling of neutron stars and the 3P2 neutron gap
Abstract
We study the dependence of the cooling of isolated neutron stars on the magnitude of the 3P2 neutron gap. Our "nuclear medium cooling" scenario favors a suppressed value of the 3P2 neutron gap.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0507061
- Bibcode:
- 2005A&A...444..913G
- Keywords:
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- dense matter;
- neutrinos;
- nuclear reactions;
- nucleosynthesis;
- abundances;
- ISM: evolution;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 18 p., 12 figs., extended version of astro-ph/0501678, accepted in A&