Published January 25, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Radiative viscosity of neutron stars

  • 1. Institute of Astrophysics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)

Description

We study non-linear effects of radiative viscosity of npe matter in neutron stars for both direct Urca process and modified Urca process, and find that non-linear effects will decrease the ratio of radiative viscosity to bulk viscosity from 1.5 to 0.5 (for direct Urca process) and 0.375 (for modified Urca process). Which means that for small oscillations of neutron star, the large fraction of oscillation energy is emitted as neutrinos; but for large enough ones, bulk viscous dissipation dominates.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.12.038

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.12.038;
arXiv
arXiv:0912.3055v1;
PII
S0370-2693(09)01486-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
683
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 255-258
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41089983
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRONS; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; NEUTRON STARS; NEUTRONS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; OSCILLATIONS; PROTONS; VISCOSITY
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUCLEONS; STARS

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