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How many neutrino emission mechanism, that causes the cooling of star, are there in neutron star?
And How, what equation, to calculate the emissivity of each mechanism?
thankfully, First
Chronos
Sep10-09, 01:08 AM
This is the best paper I've seen to date:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1621
Neutrino Emission from Cooper Pairs and Minimal Cooling of Neutron Stars
The direct urca process is not very satisfactory, imo. This appears a better alternative.
stevebd1
Sep10-09, 06:15 AM
There's a chapter in this paper regarding Neutrino Emission and Stellar Cooling with an overview of the various processes, pages 56-61-
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407155
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