Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-08-24
Astrophys.J. 553 (2001) 382-393
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
25 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/320642
We present simulations of the evolution of a proto-neutron star in which kaon-condensed matter might exist, including the effects of finite temperature and trapped neutrinos. The phase transition from pure nucleonic matter to the kaon condensate phase is described using Gibbs' rules for phase equilibrium, which permit the existence of a mixed phase. A general property of neutron stars containing kaon condensates, as well as other forms of strangeness, is that the maximum mass for cold, neutrino-free matter can be less than the maximum mass for matter containing trapped neutrinos or which has a finite entropy. A proto-neutron star formed with a baryon mass exceeding that of the maximum mass of cold, neutrino-free matter is therefore metastable, that is, it will collapse to a black hole at some time during the Kelvin-Helmholtz cooling stage. The effects of kaon condensation on metastable stars are dramatic. In these cases, the neutrino signal from a hypothetical galactic supernova (distance $\sim8.5$ kpc) will stop suddenly, generally at a level above the background in the SuperK and SNO detectors, which have low energy thresholds and backgrounds. This is in contrast to the case of a stable star, for which the signal exponentially decays, eventually disappearing into the background. We find the lifetimes of kaon-condensed metastable stars to be restricted to the range 40--70 s and weakly dependent on the proto-neutron star mass, in sharp contrast to the significantly larger mass dependence and range (1--100 s) of hyperon-rich metastable stars.
Lattimer James M.
Miralles Juan A.
Pons Jose A.
Prakash Madappa
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