Nuclear Deflagration on the Surface of Accreting Neutron Stars
Abstract
We analyze the structure of a nuclear deflagration front in the crust of accreting neutron stars. Models of quasi-stationary deflagration fronts are calculated and subsequently evolved in time and space in order to check their stability. Unlike white dwarfs, where the velocity of aninwards propagating combustion front is governed mainly by energy losses to the gravitational field, the structure of a deflagration front in neutron stars is determined essentially by the heat fluxes into the stellar core.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- April 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00643775
- Bibcode:
- 1989Ap&SS.154...89Y
- Keywords:
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- Deflagration;
- Neutron Stars;
- Nuclear Astrophysics;
- Nuclear Reactions;
- Fronts;
- Heat Flux;
- Hydrogen;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- Stellar Models;
- Surface Reactions;
- Astrophysics