Quark Stars: Features and Findings

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2007-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701734v1

Eur.Phys.J.C49:199-203,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Contribution to proceedings of Hot Quarks 2006, Villasimius, Italy; 5 pages (TeX), 2 .eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0064-y

Under extreme conditions of temperature and/or density, quarks and gluons are expected to undergo a deconfinement phase transition. While this is an ephemeral phenomenon at the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collider (BNL-RHIC), quark matter may exist naturally in the dense interior of neutron stars. Herein, we present an appraisal of the possible phase structure of dense quark matter inside neutron stars, and the likelihood of its existence given the current status of neutron star observations. We conclude that quark matter inside neutron stars cannot be dismissed as a possibility, although recent observational evidence rules out most soft equations of state.

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