Members of the double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039: Neutron stars or strange stars?
Abstract
One interesting method of constraining the dense matter Equations of State is to measure the advancement of the periastron of the orbit of a binary radio pulsar (when it belongs to a double neutron star system). There is a great deal of interest on applicability of this procedure to the double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039 (A/B). Although the above method can be applied to PSR A in future within some limitations, for PSR B this method cannot be applied. On the other hand, the study of genesis of PSR B might be useful in this connection and its low mass might be an indication that it could be a strange star.
- Publication:
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New Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- January 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0610448
- Bibcode:
- 2009NewA...14...37B
- Keywords:
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- 21.65.Qr;
- 21.65.Mn;
- 26.60.Kp;
- 97.60.Gb;
- 97.60.Jd;
- Quark matter;
- Equations of state of nuclear matter;
- Equations of state of neutron-star matter;
- Pulsars;
- Neutron stars;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, no figure. Accepted for publication in New Astronomy