Question on neutrino emission machanism in neutron star

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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
 
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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.