Cooling neutron stars and superfluidity in their interiors

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1999-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906456v1

Phys.Usp.42:737-778,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX, 85 pages, 23 figures, Physics - Uspekhi (accepted)

Scientific paper

10.1070/PU1999v042n08ABEH000556

We study the heat capacity and neutrino emission reactions (direct and modified Urca processes, nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung, Cooper pairing of nucleons) in matter of supranuclear density of the neutron star cores with superfluid neutrons and protons. Various superfluidity types are analysed (singlet-state pairing and two types of triplet-state pairing, without and with nodes of the gap at a nucleon Fermi surface). The results are used for cooling simulations of isolated neutron stars. Both, the standard cooling and the cooling enhanced by the direct Urca process, are strongly affected by nucleon superfluidity. Comparison of cooling theory of isolated neutron stars with observations of their thermal radiation may give stringent constraints on the critical temperatures of the neutron and proton superfluidities in the neutron star cores.

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