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- Title
Towards an Empirical Unified Crust-Core Description of Neutron Stars.
- Authors
Chatterjee, Debarati; Gulminelli, Francesca
- Abstract
Understanding the properties of the crust and the core as well as its interface is essential for accurate astrophysical modelling of phenomena such as glitches, X-ray bursts or oscillations in neutron stars. To study the crust-core properties, it is crucial to develop a unified and consistent scheme to describe both the clusterisedmatter in the crust and homogeneous matter in the core. The low density regime in the neutron star crust is accessible to terrestrial nuclear experiments. In order to develop a consistent description of the crust and the core of neutron stars within the same formalism, we use a density functional scheme, with the model coefficients in homogeneous matter related directly to empirical nuclear observables. In this work, we extend this scheme to non-homogeneous matter to describe nuclei in the crust. We then test this scheme against nuclear observables.
- Publication
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2017, Vol 34, p1
- ISSN
1323-3580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/pasa.2017.44