Exotic stars
Stories from Physics
for 11-14
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A number of theoretical exotic stars have been proposed including:
- Quark stars - result from the decomposition of component neutrons
- Strange stars - quark stars that contain strange quarks
- Electroweak stars - in which gravitational forces are balanced by radiation from electroweak decay
- Planck stars - in which quantum gravitational pressure causes a ‘bounce’ whilst the stars are collapsing to form a black hole.
References
Exotic stars
N. Itoh, Hydrostatic equilibrium of hypothetical quark stars. Progress of Theoretical Physics, vol. 44, no. 1, 1970, pp. 291-292.
P. Haensel, J.L. Zdunik, & R. Schaefer, Strange quark stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 160, 1986, pp. 121-128.
D. C. Dai, A. Lue, G. Starkman, & D. Stojkovic, Electroweak stars: how nature may capitalize on the standard model’s ultimate fuel. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2010, no. 12, 2010, 004.
M. Gleiser, M. (1988). Stability of boson stars. Physical Review D, vol. 38, no. 8, 1998, 2376
Y. C. Ong, Evolution of Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime and the Firewall Controversy, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2016, p. 30
