Quark phases in neutron stars and a "third family" of compact stars as a signature for phase transitions

Details Quark phases in neutron stars and a "third family" of compact stars as a signature for phase transitions Quark phases in neutron stars and a "third family" of compact stars as a signature for phase transitions

2000-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001467v1

Nucl.Phys.A677:463-490,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

37 pages, 18 eps-figures included, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9474(00)00305-5

The appearance of quark phases in the dense interior of neutron stars provides one possibility to soften the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter at high densities. This softening leads to more compact equilibrium configurations of neutron stars compared to pure hadronic stars of the same mass. We investigate the question to which amount the compactness of a neutron star can be attributed to the presence of a quark phase. For this purpose we employ several hadronic EOS in the framework of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model and an extended MIT bag model to describe the quark phase. We find that - almost independent of the model parameters - the radius of a pure hadronic neutron star gets typically reduced by 20-30% if a pure quark phase in the center of the star does exist. For some EOS we furthermore find the possibility of a "third family" of compact stars which may exist besides the two known families of white dwarfs and neutron stars. We show how an experimental proof of the existence of a third family by mass and radius measurements may provide a unique signature for a phase transition inside neutron stars.

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