Possible evidence that pulsars are quark stars
It is a pity that the real state of matter in pulsar- like stars is still not determined confidently because of the uncertainty about cold matter at supranuclear density, even 40 years after the discovery of pulsar. Nuclear matter (related to neutron stars) is one of the speculations for the inner constitution of pulsars even from the Landaus time more than 70 years ago, but quark matter (related to quark stars) is an alternative due to the fact of asymptotic freedom of interaction between quarks as the standard model of particle physics develops since 1960s. Therefore, one has to focus on astrophysical observations in order to answer what the nature of pulsars is. In this presentation, I would like to summarize possible observational evidence/hints that pulsar-like stars could be quark stars, and to address achievable clear evidence for quark stars in the future experiments.
Pulsars Quark matter Neutron stars
Renxin Xu
Astronomy Department, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
国际会议
紧凑型物体的天体物理学国际会议(International Conference on Astrophysics of Compact Objects)
安徽黄山
英文
197-202
2007-07-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）