Neutron star cooling in transiently accreting low mass binaries: a new tool for probing nuclear matter
We explore, using an exact cooling code, the thermal evolution of a neutron star undergoing episodes of intense accretion, alternated by long periods of quiescence (e.g. soft X-ray transients; SXRTs here-on). We find that the soft component of the quiescent luminosity of Aql X-1, 4U 1608-522 and of...
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2001
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