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On the mass defect of strange stars

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In the context of the MIT bag model we compute the mass defect and the gravitational packing factor for three models of strange stars and study the contribution of gravitational and internal energy to the total energy of the system. For strange stars it is possible to realize a model with negative internal energy, leading to a greater binding energy of these stars compared to neutron stars. This is the reason for the absence of configurations with negative mass defect for the models in question. We analyze the question of identifying the remnants of supernovae with neutron or strange stars.

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  1. Yu. L. Vartanyan
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Translated fromAstrofizika, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1995.

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Vartanyan, Y.L., Grigoryan, A.K. & Khachatryan, G.A. On the mass defect of strange stars. Astrophysics 38, 152–156 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02048590

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