Neutron stars Definition and 109 Threads

one reason it's good is that it is written for the Wiley "Encyclopedia of Physics" http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503245 Neutron Stars Gordon Baym, Frederick K. Lamb Comments: Encyclopedia of Physics 3rd ed., R.G. Lerner and G.L. Trigg, eds., Wiley-VCH, Berlin Abstract: "This short...

[/color] Einstein field equation gravitational potential: \nabla^2 \phi = 4 \pi G \left( \rho + \frac{3P}{c^2} \right) General Relativity gravitational pressure: P_e = \frac{c^2}{3} \left( \frac{\nabla^2 \phi}{4 \pi G} - \rho \right) Classical Yukawa Pressure: P_y = f^2 \frac{e^{-...

If neutrons stay intact and get closer together than 10^-15 metres in a neutron star, would the exchange of mesons between neutrons stop and be replaced by the exchange of gluons, and would the gluons cause an attractive or repulsive force between neutrons? A repulsive force could stop the...

An article by W Tucker and K Tucker at NASA says that neutron stars have magnetic fields. If a magnetic field is created by moving charges, and neutron stars have not net charges to move, how are the fields created?

how is a black hole formed exactly from a neutron star or a white dwarf?? what is it? is it a star? is it defined as a matter?? and what happens when light gets sucked into it? there ought to be an increase in energy in it right? what happens to this energy?

neutron stars seem an oddity to me, they seem to have to much mass to size to be held together purly by gravity do neutrons have mutual attraction? or is space very very distorted by them?

Do strange stars exist? Apparently they are denser than neutron stars and consist of up down and strange quarks. But are they theory or reality?

4 dec 2003. http://www.physlink.com/News/120403PulsarGravity.cfm A discovery made with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia may have brought forward the day when astronomers will directly detect cosmic gravity waves for the first time...

It is a known fact that neutron stars and pulsars, remnants of super nova explosions, have very strong magnetic fields. It is said that the collapse of the core amplifies the magnetic field of the progenitor. This is due to the fact that the magnetic fields lines are drawn closer together during...