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Superfluid fraction in the crystalline crust of a neutron star: role of BCS pairing
Nicolas Chamel
The breaking of translational symmetry in the inner crust of a neutron star leads to the depletion of the neutron superfluid reservoir similarly to cold atomic condensates in optic…
On variational trial functions in the extended Thomas-Fermi method
A. Y. Potekhin, A. I. Chugunov, N. N. Shchechilin +1
Parametrized nucleon density distributions are widely employed for the calculation of the properties of atomic nuclei and dense inhomogeneous matter in compact stars within the Tho…
Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass models on a 3D mesh: IV. Improved description of the isospin dependence of pairing
Guilherme Grams, Nikolai N. Shchechilin, Adrian Sanchez-Fernandez +3
Providing reliable data on the properties of atomic nuclei and infinite nuclear matter to astrophysical applications remains extremely challenging, especially when treating both pr…
Role of neutron pairing with density-gradient dependence in the semi-microscopic treatment of the inner crust of neutron stars
Nicolas Chamel, John-Michael Pearson, Nikolay N. Shchechilin
Using the fourth-order extended Thomas-Fermi method with Strutinsky-integral shell and pairing corrections, we calculate the inner crust of neutron stars with the BSk31 functional,…
Unified equations of state for cold nonaccreting neutron stars with Brussels-Montreal functionals. V. Improved parametrization of the nucleon density distributions
N. N. Shchechilin, N. Chamel, J. M. Pearson +2
We previously studied the inner crust and the pasta mantle of a neutron star within the 4th-order extended Thomas-Fermi (ETF) approach with consistent proton shell corrections adde…
Gapless superfluidity in neutron stars: Thermal properties
Valentin Allard, Nicolas Chamel
The interior of mature neutron stars is expected to contain superfluid neutrons and superconducting protons. The influence of temperature and currents on superfluid properties is s…