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arxiv: astro-ph/0310049 · v1 · submitted 2003-10-02 · 🌌 astro-ph · hep-ph

RX J1856.5-3754: A strange star with solid quark surface?

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Within the realms of the possibility of solid quark matter, we fitted the 500ks Chandra LETG/HRC data for RX J1856.5-3754 with a phenomenological spectral model, and found that electric conductivity of quark matter on the stellar surface is about > 1.2 x 10^{18} s^{-1}.

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