Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998apj...501l.155l&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal Letters v.501, p.L155
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Errata, Addenda
Scientific paper
In the Letter "Parity Violation in Neutrino Transport and the Origin of Pulsar Kicks" by D. Lai and Y.-Z. Qian (ApJ, 495, L103 [1998]), at the beginning of § 3, a citation of Horowitz & Li (1997; now updated to Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 3694 [1998]) should be added to the end of the sentence "However, the cumulative effect due to multiple scatterings can enhance the asymmetry in neutrino emission." We have recently realized that in the bulk interior of the neutron star, where local thermodynamic equilibrium applies to a good approximation, detailed balance requires that there be no cumulative effect from multiple scatterings. Enhancement of neutrino emission asymmetry is obtained only after neutrinos thermally decouple from proto-neutron star matter. Therefore, our Letter overestimated the neutrino emission asymmetry and the resulting pulsar kicks. More details will be presented in a future paper (P. Arras & F. Lai, Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted [1998]).
Lai Dong
Qian Yong-Zhong
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