Energy release associated with a first-order phase transition in a rotating neutron star core

Details Energy release associated with a first-order phase transition in a rotating neutron star core Energy release associated with a first-order phase transition in a rotating neutron star core

2006-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610188v1

Astron.Astrophys.465:533-539,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20066515

We calculate energy release associated with a first order phase transition at the center of a rotating neutron star. The results are based on precise numerical 2-D calculations, in which both the polytropic equations of state (EOS) as well as realistic EOS of the normal phase are used. Presented results are obtained for a broad range of metastability of initial configuration and size of the new superdense phase core in the final configuration. For small radii of the superdense phase core analytical expressions for the energy release are obtained. For a fixed "overpressure" dP (the relative excess of central pressure of collapsing metastable star over the pressure of equilibrium first-order phase transition) the energy release remarkably does not depend on the stellar angular momentum and coincides with that for nonrotating stars with the same dP. The energy release is proportional to dP^2.5 for small dPs, when sufficiently precise brute force 2-D numerical calculations are out of question. For higher dPs, results of 1-D calculations of energy release for non-rotating stars are shown to reproduce, with very high precision, the exact 2-D results for rotating stars.

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