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Title: Constraining Hadronic Superfluidity with Neutron Star Precession

Authors: Bennett Link (Montana State University)
Abstract: I show that the standard picture of the neutron star core containing coexisting neutron and proton superfluids, with the proton component forming a type II superconductor threaded by flux tubes, is inconsistent with observations of long-period (~1 yr) precession in isolated pulsars. I conclude that either the two superfluids coexist nowhere in the stellar core, or the core is a type I superconductor rather than type II. Either possibility would have interesting implications for neutron star cooling and theories of spin jumps (glitches).
Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure. New discussion of type I superconductivity. Typos corrected
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
Journal reference: Phys.Rev.Lett.91:101101,2003
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.101101
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0302441v2

Submission history

From: Bennett Link [view email]
[v1] Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:48:16 GMT (19kb)
[v2] Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:59:44 GMT (18kb)