$\beta$-decay Measurements Near the $N=40$ Island of Inversion to Quantify Cooling of Accreted Neutron Star Crusts

K. Hermansen, W. -J. Ong, H. Schatz +18

Understanding the thermal structure of the outer crust of accreting neutron stars is important to interpret astronomical X-ray observations. Ground-state to ground-state $\beta$-decay…