Strangelet dwarfs
arXiv:1111.3937 · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/39/6/065201
Abstract
If the surface tension of quark matter is low enough, quark matter is not self bound. At sufficiently low pressure and temperature, it will take the form of a crystal of positively charged strangelets in a neutralizing background of electrons. In this case there will exist, in addition to the usual family of strange stars, a family of low-mass large-radius objects analogous to white dwarfs, which we call "strangelet dwarfs". Using a generic parametrization of the equation of state of quark matter, we calculate the mass-radius relationship of these objects.
10 pages, LaTeX, added discussion of CFL phase and strangelet pollution, version to appear in journal. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0808.0671
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