Internal Constitution of Neutron and Strange Stars
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In the first of these two lectures I will discuss the rich constitution of neutron stars as a consequence of the Pauli principle which is engaged by the dominance of gravity over the nuclear force. Three especially interesting phenomena are discussed in this contect--(1) a mechanism for the formation of low-mass black holes distinct in their mass-range from the black holes formed in the prompt collapse of an entire star, (2) a multilayered crystalline structure consisting of confined hadronic matter embedded in a background of deconfined quark matter (or vice versa) which occupies a many kilometer thick inner region, and (3) a clean and pronounced signal of the formation of quark matter in the interior of neutron stars. In the second lecture I will discuss the strange matter hypothesis, its viability as well as its consequences for compact stars and a new family of white dwarfs with dense nuclear matter central regions some orders of magnuitude greater than in ordinary white dwarfs.
34 pages, 30 figures embedded, Latex with crckapb.sty. (October 1996, to appear in Proceedings ``The Many Faces of Neutron Stars'' Alpar et. al. eds. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht)
34 pages, 30 figures embedded, Latex with crckapb.sty. (October 1996, to appear in Proceedings ``The Many Faces of Neutron Stars'' Alpar et. al. eds. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht)