Low-Mass Quark Stars |
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Authors: | Renxin Xu |
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Institution: | (1) School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China |
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Abstract: | More and more observational hints of quark stars are proposed these years though pulsars are considered conventionally to
be normal neutron stars. The existence of low-mass quark stars is a direct consequence of the possibility that pulsar-like stars are actually quark stars, because of the ability
that quark matter can confine itself by color interaction. After a brief introduction to the study of quark stars, the various
astrophysical implications of low-mass quark stars are investigated. It is addressed that some of the transient unidentified
γ -ray sources are probably merging quark stars. The observability of low-mass quark stars is discussed. |
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Keywords: | dense matter pulsars neutron stars elementary particles |
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