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Are there Strange Stars in the Universe?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Ignazio Bombaci
Ignazio Bombaci*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, and INFN Sez. di Pisa, via Buonarroti, 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

Abstract

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Strange stars could represent a new class of stellar compact objects, where a new phase of dense matter (deconfined strange quark matter) comes into play. Here, we discuss some possible observational evidence for their existence.

Type
Part 9. Population and Neutron Star Properties
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 659 - 660
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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