Bulk viscosity of neutron stars.

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Neutron Stars: Viscosity, Neutron Stars: Stability

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Viscosity of neutron stars has been a continuing area of research for many years now. Recently interest in this field has revived because of the possibility of URCA processes in neutron stars. In this paper the authors report calculation of the bulk viscosity of neutron stars from these processes. For this purpose they have used the β-decay rates which were calculated without making the usual approximations of neglecting the neutrino momentum and using the nuclear mean field theory for the description of interacting nuclear matter. Also they have not restricted their calculation to the linear regime which corresponds to the assumption that fluctuations in the chemical potential away from β-equilibrium remain small. It is found that for large amplitude fluctuations, where the linear approximation is not valid, bulk viscosity increases by many orders of magnitude. Also, as against strange matter stars, where the viscosity first increases with increasing temperature and then starts decreasing beyond 0.1 MeV, the authors find that the viscosity increases uniformly with temperature at least up to 2 MeV. They discuss the implications of these results for the stability of neutron stars.

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