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Dark matter heating in strange stars

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We study the effect of dark matter heating on the temperature of typical strange star (SS hereafter) (M = 1.4 M⊙, R = 10 km) in normal phase (NSS hereafter) and in a possible existing colour-flavour locked (CFL)phase (CSS hereafter). For NSS, the influence of dark matter heating is ignored until roughly 107 yr. After 107 yr, the dark matter heating is dominant that significantly delays the star cooling, which maintains a temperature much higher than that predicted by standard cooling model for old stars. Especially for CSS, the emissivity of dark matter will play a leading role after roughly 104 yr, which causes the temperature to rise. This leads to the plateau of surface temperature appearing in ∼106.5 yr which is earlier than that of NSS (∼107 yr).

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    Xi Huang, Wen Wang & XiaoPing Zheng

  2. School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430073, China

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Huang, X., Wang, W. & Zheng, X. Dark matter heating in strange stars. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 57, 791–795 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-014-5393-5

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