Neutron stars - cooling and transport

Abstract

Observations of thermal radiation from neutron stars can potentially provide information about the states of supranuclear matter in the interiors of these stars with the aid of the theory of neutron-star thermal evolution. We review the basics of this theory for isolated neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, including most relevant thermodynamic and kinetic properties in the stellar core, crust, and blanketing envelopes.

57 pages, 3 tables, 12 figures, invited topical review in The Strongest Magnetic Fields in the Universe, eds. V. S. Beskin, A. Balogh, M. Falanga, M. Lyutikov, S. Mereghetti, T. Piran, R. A. Treumann (Space Sciences Series of ISSI, Springer). In v.2, a typo in Eq.(3) is fixed. In v.3, Eqs.(32)-(33) are corrected, and references updated

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