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Bremsstrahlung emission from quark stars

University of British Columbia

We calculate numerically the emissivity and surface flux of electron-electron bremsstrahlung radiation from the surface of a bare quark star. The restricted electronic phase space due to the presence of an effective photon mass results in a strong suppression. The emissivity and surface flux are found to be substantially smaller than those found previous work [17], to the point where electron-positron pair production would remain the dominant radiation mechanism at all temperatures in the relativistic regime [35]. As a consequence, the distinct emission spectrum characteristic of electron-positron pair annihilation is a likely distinguishing characteristic of bare quark stars.

Thesis/Dissertation

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2009-10-06

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13651

Physics

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/