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Hybrid Stars that Masquerade as Neutron Stars

  • Authors: Mark Alford, Matt Braby, Mark Paris, and Sanjay Reddy

Alford et al. 2005 The Astrophysical Journal 629 969.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 6.

The M(R) relationship for hybrid stars involving quark matter obeying the simple bag model equation of state, with various values of c and ρc, and ﹩m_{s}=180﹩ MeV and ﹩\Delta =0﹩. The line with filled circles is the M(R) relation for a pure nuclear APR star. The solid lines are for hybrid stars with homogeneous neutral APR and CFL phases; the dashed lines are for hybrid stars with mixed APR+CFL phases. We see that the maximum mass Mmax is very sensitive to the perturbative correction c but not to the transition density or the occurrence of mixed phases. For ﹩c=0.3﹩, which is close to the value suggested in Fraga et al. (2001), ﹩M_{\mathrm{max}\,}\approx 1.9﹩ M.

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