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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 447, 期 3, 页码 2073-2084出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2558
关键词
dense matter; stars: neutron; pulsars: general; pulsars: individual: PSR J0437-4715; stars: rotation
资金
- FONDECYT [1060644, 1110213]
- Proyecto Basal [PFB-06/2007]
- CONICYT International Collaboration Grant [DFG-06]
When a rotating neutron star loses angular momentum, the progressive reduction of the centrifugal force makes it contract. This perturbs each fluid element, raising the local pressure and originating deviations from beta equilibrium, inducing reactions that release heat ('rotochemical heating'). This effect has previously been studied by Fern 'andez & Reisenegger for non-superfluid neutron stars and by Petrovich & Reisenegger for superfluid millisecond pulsars. Both studies found that pulsars reach a quasi-steady state in which the compression driving the matter out of beta equilibrium is balanced by the reactions trying to restore the equilibrium. We extend previous studies by considering the effect of density-dependence and anisotropy of the superfluid energy gaps, for the case in which the dominant reactions are the modified Urca processes, the protons are non-superconducting, and the neutron superfluidity is parametrized by models proposed in the literature. By comparing our predictions with the surface temperature of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 and upper limits for 21 classical pulsars, we find the millisecond pulsar can be only explained by the models with the effectively largest energy gaps (type B models), the classical pulsars require with the gap models that vanish for some angle (type C) and two different envelope compositions. Thus, no single model for neutron superfluidity can simultaneously account for the thermal emission of all available observations of non-accreting neutron stars, possibly due to our neglect of proton superconductivity.
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