A note on the discovery of a 2M_\odot pulsar

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2010-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/1011.0526v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

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It is conventionally thought that the state equation of dense matter softens and thus cannot result in high maximum mass if pulsars are quark stars, and that a recently discovered $2M_\odot$ pulsar (PSR J1614-2230) may make quark stars to be unlikely. However, this standard point of view would be revisited and updated if quark clustering could occur in cold quark matter because of the strong coupling between quarks at realistic baryon densities of compact stars, and it is addressed that the state equation of clustering quark matter stiffs to support compact stars with maximum mass $M_{\rm max}>2M_\odot$. In this brief note, it is demonstrated that large parameter spaces are allowed for $M_{\rm max}>2M_\odot$ in a Lennard-Jones model of clustered quark matter, and the newly measured highest mass of PSR J1614-2230 would be meaningful to constrain the number of quarks inside single quark-cluster, to be $N_q<\sim 10^3$.

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