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arxiv: astro-ph/0507560 · v1 · pith:NVHME7NKnew · submitted 2005-07-23 · 🌌 astro-ph

Cooling of Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall neutron star models

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We study the cooling of superfluid neutron stars whose cores consist of nucleon matter with the Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall equation of state. This equation of state opens the powerful direct Urca process of neutrino emission in the interior of most massive neutron stars. Extending our previous studies (Gusakov et al. 2004a, Kaminker et al. 2005), we employ phenomenological density-dependent critical temperatures T_{cp}(\rho) of strong singlet-state proton pairing (with the maximum T_{cp}^{max} \sim 7e9 K in the outer stellar core) and T_{cnt}(\rho) of moderate triplet-state neutron pairing (with the maximum T_{cnt}^{max} \sim 6e8 K in the inner core). Choosing properly the position of T_{cnt}^{max} we can obtain a representative class of massive neutron stars whose cooling is intermediate between the cooling enhanced by the neutrino emission due to Cooper pairing of neutrons in the absence of the direct Urca process and the very fast cooling provided by the direct Urca process non-suppressed by superfluidity.

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