Strongly coupled Coulomb and nuclear plasma in inner crusts of neutron stars
D. G. Yakovlev, O. Y. Gnedin, A. Y. Potekhin
Abstract
Matter of subnuclear density in the inner crusts of neutron stars consists of neutron-rich atomic nuclei immersed in strongly degenerate relativistic gas of electrons and strongly nonideal liquid of neutrons. We give a brief account of thermodynamic and kinetic properties of this matter which are greatly affected by Coulomb and nuclear interactions (a companion paper on the outer envelopes is astro-ph/0012316) and show how they can be studied from observations of thermal radiation of young (age < 100 yr) neutron stars (for a discussion of the latter possibility, see astro-ph/0012306).
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