Neutron Stars—Cooling and Transport
Abstract
Observations of thermal radiation from neutron stars can potentially provide information about the states of supranuclear matter in the interiors of these stars with the aid of the theory of neutron-star thermal evolution. We review the basics of this theory for isolated neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, including most relevant thermodynamic and kinetic properties in the stellar core, crust, and blanketing envelopes.
- Publication:
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Space Science Reviews
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s11214-015-0180-9
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1507.06186
- Bibcode:
- 2015SSRv..191..239P
- Keywords:
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- Neutron stars;
- Magnetic fields;
- Dense matter;
- Thermal emission;
- Heat transport;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 57 pages, 3 tables, 12 figures, invited topical review in The Strongest Magnetic Fields in the Universe, eds. V. S. Beskin, A. Balogh, M. Falanga, M. Lyutikov, S. Mereghetti, T. Piran, R. A. Treumann (Space Sciences Series of ISSI, Springer). In v.2, a typo in Eq.(3) is fixed. In v.3, Eqs.(32)-(33) are corrected, and references updated