Effects of quark matter nucleation on the evolution of proto-neutron stars

DOI10.1051/0004-6361/201015783zbMATH Open1260.85033arXiv1102.1665OpenAlexW3098975990WikidataQ68997820 ScholiaQ68997820MaRDI QIDQ4905693FDOQ4905693

Constança Providência, Isaac Vidaña, I. Bombaci, D. Logoteta

Publication date: 20 February 2013

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: (Abridged) A phase of strong interacting matter with deconfined quarks is expected in the core of massive neutron stars. If this deconfinement phase transition is of the first order then it will be triggered by the nucleation of a critical size drop of the stable quark phase in the metastable hadronic phase. Within these circumstances it has been shown that cold pure hadronic compact stars above a threshold value of their gravitational mass are metastable with respect to the "decay" to quark stars (compact stars made at least in part of quark matter). This stellar conversion process liberates a huge amount of energy, and it could be the energy source of some of the long GRBs. The main goal of the present work is to establish whether a newborn hadronic star (proto-hadronic star) could survive the early stages of its evolution without "decaying" to a quark star. To this aim, we study the nucleation process of quark matter in hot beta-stable hadronic matter, with and without trapped neutrinos. We calculate and compare the nucleation rate and the nucleation time due to thermal and quantum nucleation mechanisms. We compute the crossover temperature above which thermal nucleation dominates the finite temperature quantum nucleation mechanism. We next discuss the consequences of quark matter nucleation for the physics and the evolution of proto-neutron stars. We introduce the new concept of limiting conversion temperature and critical mass M_cr for proto-hadronic stars, and we show that proto-hadronic stars with a mass M < M_cr could survive the early stages of their evolution without decaying to a quark star. We extend the concept of maximum mass of a "neutron star" with respect to the classical one introduced by Oppenheimer & Volkoff to account for the existence of two distinct families of compact stars (hadronic stars and quark stars) as predicted by the present scenario.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1665

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zbMATH Keywords

equation of statedense mattermassive neutron star

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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