The Cooling of Compact Stars

Details The Cooling of Compact Stars The Cooling of Compact Stars

2005-08-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508056v1

Nucl.Phys.A777:497-530,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Invited review for a special issue of Nucl. Phys. A. 44 pages, 18 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2005.09.019

The cooling of a compact star depends very sensitively on the state of dense matter at supranuclear densities, which essentially controls the neutrino emission, as well as on the structure of the stellar outer layers which control the photon emission. Open issues concern the hyperon population, the presence of meson condensates, superfluidity and superconductivity, and the transition of confined hadronic matter to quark matter. This paper describes these issues and presents cooling calculations based on a broad collection of equations of state for neutron star matter and strange matter. These results are tested against the body of observed cooling data.

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