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'Tertiary' nuclear burning - Neutron star deflagration?A motivation is presented for the idea that dense nuclear matter can burn to a new class of stable particles. One of several possibilities is an 'octet' particle which is the 16 baryon extension of alpha particle, but now composed of a pair of each of the two nucleons, (3Sigma, Delta, and 2Xi). Such 'tertiary' nuclear burning (here 'primary' is H-He and 'secondary' is He-Fe) may lead to neutron star explosions rather than collapse to a black hole, analogous to some Type I supernovae models wherein accreting white dwarfs are pushed over the Chandrasekhar mass limit but explode rather than collapse to form neutron stars. Such explosions could possibly give gamma-ray bursts and power quasars, with efficient particle acceleration in the resultant relativistic shocks. The new stable particles themselves could possibly be the sought-after weakly interacting, massive particles (WIMPs) or 'dark' matter.
Document ID
19880043957
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Michel, F. Curtis
(Rice University Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
April 15, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor
Volume: 327
ISSN: 0004-637X
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
88A31184
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF PHY-86-04197
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF PHY-85-05682
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-85-11709
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-379
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