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RX J1856.5−3754: A Strange Star with a Solid Quark Surface?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

X. L. Zhang ,
R. X. Xu  and
S. N. Zhang
X. L. Zhang
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
R. X. Xu
Affiliation:
School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
S. N. Zhang
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Abstract

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Within the realms of possibility of solid quark matter, we fitted the 500 ks Chandra LETG/HRC data for RX J1856.5−3754 with a phenomenological spectral model, and found that the electric conductivity of quark matter on the stellar surface is about > 1.2 × 1018 s−1.

Type
Part 6: Neutron Stars and Strange Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 218: Young Neutrons Stars and their Environments , 2004 , pp. 303 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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