Publication Date:
2011-02-23
Description:
Author(s): Dany Page, Madappa Prakash, James M. Lattimer, and Andrew W. Steiner We propose that the observed cooling of the neutron star in Cassiopeia A is due to enhanced neutrino emission from the recent onset of the breaking and formation of neutron Cooper pairs in the ^{3} P _{2} channel. We find that the critical temperature for this superfluid transition is ≃0.5×10^{9... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 081101] Published Tue Feb 22, 2011
Keywords:
Gravitation and Astrophysics
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics