Revisiting the stability of strange-dwarf stars and strange planets [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07654


The dynamical stability of strange-dwarf hybrid stars and strange planets, constituted by strange-quark-matter cores and dilute-nuclear-matter crusts, is revisited by analyzing the fundamental mode eigenfrequencies of the radial oscillation equations with non-trivial boundary conditions for slow and fast conversions characterizing distinct microphysical scales originating at the density-discontinuous interface. Our calculations indicate that in the case of rapid conversions the so-called {\it reaction mode} plays the fundamental role in these non-compact objects and allow their existence in nature. Interestingly, slow conversions display the same stability window as the seminal work of Glendenning-Kettner-Weber. The robustness of our findings is demonstrated for different transition densities and also using an equation of state from perturbative QCD for the ultra-dense core.

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V. Goncalves, J. Jimenez and L. Lazzari
Thu, 19 Jan 23
96/100

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures