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Strongly Coupled Coulomb and Nuclear Plasma in Inner Crusts of Neutron Stars

✍ Scribed by D.G. Yakovlev; O.Y. Gnedin; A.Y. Potekhin

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 138 KB
Volume: 41
Category: Article
ISSN: 0005-8025
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3986(200103)41:2/3<227::aid-ctpp227>3.0.co;2-4

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✦ Synopsis

Matter of subnuclear density in the inner crusts of neutron stars consists of neutron-rich atomic nuclei immersed in strongly degenerate relativistic gas of electrons and strongly nonideal liquid of neutrons. Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of this matter are greatly affected by Coulomb and nuclear interactions and can be studied, in principle, from observations of thermal radiation of young (age < ∼ 100 yr) neutron stars.