Monday, June 25, 2012

1206.5011 (Dany Page)

Pairing and the Cooling of Neutron Stars    [PDF]

Dany Page
In this review, I present a brief summary of the impact of nucleon pairing at supra-nuclear densities on the cooling of neutron stars. I also describe how the recent observation of the cooling of the neutron star in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A may provide us with the first direct evidence for the occurrence of such pairing. It also implies a size of the neutron 3P-F2 energy gap of the order of 0.1 MeV.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5011

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