Published September 1984
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Journal article
Temperature regime of neutron stars heated by nucleon decay
Creators
- 1. Institute for Space Research, USSR Academy of Sciences
Description
A calculation is given for the temperature regime of a neutron star in the distant future, when because of nucleon decay (the average lifetime of a nucleon is tau0roughly-equal1032 yr), the star's temperature will be determined by the balance of heating due to the process of nucleon decay, reorganization of the star's structure owing to variation of the number of nucleons in it, and cooling due to energy carried off by neutrinos and photon emission from the stellar surface. Equations describing the temperature regime within the framework of the general theory of relativity are obtained. Graphs of the variation of the number of nucleons in the star and its temperature in the time system of a distant observer are presented
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.)
- Journal Volume
- 28
- Journal Issue
- 5
- Series
- Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.).
- Journal Page Range
- 545-546
- ISSN
- 0038-5301
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 16076295
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC NEUTRINOS; COSMIC PHOTONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; MASS; NEUTRON STARS; NUCLEONS; RADIATION HEATING; RADIATIVE COOLING; SEMILEPTONIC DECAY; STAR EVOLUTION
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; COOLING; COSMIC RADIATION; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE DECAY; PHOTONS; RADIATIONS; STARS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
Optional Information
- Notes
- Cover-to-cover translation of Astronomicheskij Zhurnal (USSR).