Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-05-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
6 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
A variety of descriptions of the conversion of a neutron into a strange star have appeared in the literature over the years. Generally speaking, these works treat the process as a mere phase transition or ignore everything but microscopic kinetics, attempting to pin down the speed of the conversion and its consequences. We revisit in this work the propagation of the hypothetical "combustion" n $\to$ SQM in a dense stellar environment. We address in detail the instabilities affecting the flame and present new results of application to the turbulent regime. The acceleration of the flame, the possible transition to the distributed regime and further deflagration-to-detonation mechanism are addressed. As a general result, we conclude that the burning happens in (at least) either the turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor or the distributed regime. In both cases the velocity of the conversion of the star is several orders of magnitude larger than vlam, making the latter irrelevant in practice for this problem. A transition to a detonation is by no means excluded, actually it seems to be favored by the physical setting, but a definitive answer would need a full numerical simulation.
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