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PROCESSES OF BURNING AND CONVECTION IN COMPACT OBJECTS

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812708793_0019Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    We study the hydrodynamical transition from an hadronic star into a quark or a hybrid star. We discuss the possible mode of burning, using a fully relativistic formalism and realistic Equations of State. We take into account the possibility that quarks form a diquark condensate. We find that the conversion process always corresponds to a deflagration and never to a detonation. Hydrodynamical instabilities can develop on the front but the increase in the conversion's velocity is not sufficient to transform the deflagration into a detonation. Concerning convection, it does not always develop. Instead the process of conversion from ungapped quark matter to gapped quarks always allows the formation of a convective layer.