Hybrid cooling of the Cassiopeia A neutron star
arXiv:2202.08971 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stac448
Abstract
The observed rapid cooling of the neutron star Cassiopeia A is usually interpreted as being caused by transitions of neutrons and protons in the star's core from the normal state to the superfluid and superconducting state. However, this so-called "minimal" cooling paradigm faces the problem of numerically simulating the observed anomalously fast drop in the neutron star surface temperature using theoretical neutrino energy losses from superfluid neutrons. As a solution to this problem, I propose a somewhat more complex cooling model, in which, in addition to superfluid neutrons, direct Urca processes from a very small central part of the neutron star core are also involved. Numerical simulations of the cooling trajectory in this scenario show excellent agreement with observations of the Cassiopeia A neutron star. The proposed cooling scenario unambiguously relates the used equation of state and the mass of the neutron star. For a neutron star constructed according to BSk25 equation of state, the most appropriate are the mass $M=1.62M_{\sun}$ and the radius km. If BSk24 equation of state is used, then the most suitable solution is $M=1.60M_{\sun}$ and km.
7 pages, 8 figures
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