Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2004
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COMPACT STARS The Quest for New States of Dense Matter. Proceedings of the KIAS-APCTP International Symposium on Astro-Hadron Ph
Physics
Scientific paper
Neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe today in which matter with several phases in adiabatic equilibrium can be found. Various high-density phases, both geometric and constitutional are spatially spread out by the pressure gradient in the star. Boundaries between phases slowly move, appear, or disappear as the density profile of the star is changed by the centrifugal force due to spindown caused by the magnetic torque of a pulsar, or the spinup of an x-ray neutron star because of the torque applied by mass accreted from a companion star. Phase transitions in turn produce their own imprint on the spin behavior through changes in the moment of inertia as one phase replaces another, in some cases on single stars, and in others on populations. These are the clues that we elucidate after first reviewing high-density phases.
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