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Thermal Evolution and Light Curves of Young Bare Strange Stars
The cooling of a young bare strange star is studied numerically by solving
the equations of energy conservation and heat transport for both normal and
superconducting strange quark matter inside the star. We show that the thermal
luminosity from the strange star surface, due to both photon emission and e+e-
pair production, may be orders of magnitude higher than the Eddington limit,
for about one day for normal quark matter but possibly for up to a hundred
years for superconducting quark matter, while the maximum of the photon
spectrum is in hard X-rays with a mean energy of ~ 100 keV or even more. This
differs both qualitatively and quantitatively from the photon emission from
young neutron stars and provides a definite observational signature for bare
strange stars. It is shown that the energy gap of superconducting strange quark
matter may be estimated from the light curves if it is in the range from ~ 0.5
MeV to a few MeV.Comment: Ref [10] added and abstract shortened. 4 pages, 3 figures, revtex4.
To be published in Phys. Rev. Letter
On the possible observational manifestation of supernova shock impact on the neutron star magnetosphere
Impact of supernova explosion on the neutron star magnetosphere in a massive
binary system is considered. The supernova shock striking the NS magnetosphere
filled with plasma can lead to the formation of a magnetospheric tail with
significant magnetic energy. The magnetic field reconnection in the current
sheet formed can convert the magnetic energy stored in the tail into kinetic
energy of accelerated charged particles. Plasma instabilities excited by beams
of relativistic particles can lead to the formation of a short pulse of
coherent radio emission with parameters similar to those of the observed bright
extragalactic millisecond radio burst (Lorimer et al. 2007).Comment: 8 pages, Astron. Lett. in pres
Induced scattering of short radio pulses
Effect of the induced Compton and Raman scattering on short, bright radio
pulses is investigated. It is shown that when a single pulse propagates through
the scattering medium, the effective optical depth is determined by the
duration of the pulse but not by the scale of the medium. The induced
scattering could hinder propagation of the radio pulse only if close enough to
the source a dense enough plasma is presented. The induced scattering within
the relativistically moving source places lower limits on the Lorentz factor of
the source. The results are applied to the recently discovered short
extragalactic radio pulse.Comment: submitted to Ap
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