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Stability and instability of strange dwarfs
Di Clemente, Francesco; Drago, Alessandro; Char, Prasanta et al.
2023In Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, p. 1
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Keywords :
Dark matter; Equation of state; Stars: neutron; White dwarfs; Coulomb barrier; Equation-of-state; Quark matter; Radial mode; Radial oscillation; Stability and instability; Stars: Be; Stars: neutrons; Two-component; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Space and Planetary Science; astro-ph.SR; astro-ph.HE; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Nuclear Theory
Abstract :
[en] Aims. More than 20 years ago, the existence of stable white dwarfs with a core of strange quark matter was proposed. More recently, via the study of radial modes, it has been concluded instead that such objects are unstable. We aim to clarify this issue. Methods. We investigated the stability of these objects by looking at their radial oscillations while incorporating boundary conditions at the quark"hadron interface, which correspond to either a rapid or a slow conversion of hadrons into quarks. Results. Our analysis shows that objects of this type are stable if the star is not strongly perturbed and ordinary matter cannot transform into strange quark matter because of the Coulomb barrier separating the two components. On the other hand, ordinary matter can be transformed into strange quark matter if the star undergoes a violent process, as in the preliminary stages of a type Ia supernova, and this causes the system to become unstable and collapse into a strange quark star. In this way, the accretion-induced collapse of strange dwarfs can be facilitated, and kilometre-sized objects with sub-solar masses can be produced.
Disciplines :
Physics
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Di Clemente, Francesco ;  Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Universitá di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy ; Infn Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Drago, Alessandro ;  Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Universitá di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy ; Infn Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Char, Prasanta  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Interactions fondamentales en physique et astrophysique (IFPA)
Pagliara, Giuseppe ;  Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Universitá di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy ; Infn Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Language :
English
Title :
Stability and instability of strange dwarfs
Publication date :
October 2023
Journal title :
Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISSN :
0004-6361
eISSN :
1432-0746
Publisher :
EDP Sciences
Volume :
678
Pages :
L1
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funding text :
We thank Michał Bejger for several useful discussions during the preparation of this work. P.C. is currently supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS, Belgium, under grant No. 4.4503.19.
Commentary :
5 pages, 6 figures. Version accepted for publication on A&A Letters
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