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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 11: Relativistic Astrophysics

GR 11.1: Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 15:40–16:00, H 2013

Relativistic Hydrodynamics in the Context of the Hadron-Quark Phase Transition in Compact Stars — •Matthias Hanauske — Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main

The properties of compact stars are mainly determined by two fundamental forces: Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and general relativity. Relativistic hydrodynamical simulations of collapsing neutron stars and binary neutron star mergers depend strongly on the high density properties of the equation of state (EoS) of hadronic and quark matter. The appearance of the QCD - phase transition (the transition from confined hadronic to deconfined quark matter) will change the properties of neutron stars; eg. usually it is assumed that the loss of stability of a neutron star, exceeding its maximum mass, leads to the collapse into a black hole. However, realistic calculations within QCD-motivated models show that a neutron star collapse could be stopped before the black hole forms. Within such a collapse scenario the neutron star would be transformed into a hybrid star with a deconfined quark matter phase at its inner core. Several astrophysical observables of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma will be discussed during the talk. Whether these observables will be visible with telescopes and gravitational wave detectors depends strongly on the EoS and on the order and construction of the phase transition.