PSR B1257+12: a quark star with planets?
Abstract
A recent observation has shown that PSR B1257+12 could have quite small X-ray emitting area, only about 2000 m2, which is more than three orders smaller than the canonical polar cap size. We suggest here that PSR B1257+12 could be a low-mass quark star with radius of R 0.6 km and mass of M 3×10-4. Such a low-mass quark star system may form in an accretion induced collapse process or a collision process of two quark stars.
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