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磁场对中子星并合中乌卡过程速率的影响

Effect of Magnetic Fields on Urca Rates in Neutron Star Mergers

Pranjal Tambe, Debarati Chatterjee, Mark Alford, Alexander Haber

AI总结:

本研究针对(原)中子星等环境中的乌卡过程,通过对不同状态方程进行温度与磁场依赖的速率积分,发现几MeV温度下磁场对乌卡速率影响显著(尤其在直接乌卡阈值附近),且对中子衰变速率的影响强于电子俘获速率,会改变味平衡。

摘要:

被称为“乌卡”过程的同位旋平衡弱相互作用过程在(原)中子星、中子星并合和超新星等天体物理环境中至关重要。这些环境中物质可达到数十MeV的高温并处于强磁场中。因此,我们通过对不同状态方程进行完全依赖温度和磁场的速率积分,研究了不同温度和磁场强度下的乌卡速率。我们发现,在几MeV的温度下,尤其是接近或低于直接乌卡阈值时,磁场起着重要作用,而该阈值会因磁场而软化。在更高温度下,磁场的影响会被热效应掩盖。我们观察到,磁场对中子衰变速率的影响比对电子俘获速率的影响更强,导致味平衡发生偏移。

英文摘要:

Isospin-equilibrating weak processes, called ``Urca" processes, are of fundamental importance in astrophysical environments like (proto-)neutron stars, neutron star mergers, and supernovae. In these environments, matter can reach high temperatures of tens of MeVs and be subject to large magnetic fields. We thus investigate Urca rates at different temperatures and field strengths by performing the full temperature and magnetic-field dependent rate integrals for different equations of state. We find that the magnetic fields play an important role at temperatures of a few MeV, especially close to or below the direct Urca threshold, which is softened by the magnetic field. At higher temperatures, the effect of the magnetic fields can be overshadowed by the thermal effects. We observe that the magnetic field more strongly influences the neutron decay rates than the electron capture rates, leading to a shift in the flavor equilibrium.

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