Thermonuclear Heating of Accreting Neutron Stars
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| author | Nava-Callejas, Martin Page, Dany Cavecchi, Yuri |
| author_facet | Nava-Callejas, Martin Page, Dany Cavecchi, Yuri |
| contents | We describe a new method to incorporate thermonuclear heating in the envelope of accreting neutron star into long term simulations of their thermal evolution. We obtain boundary conditions for the heat exchange between the envelope and the crust based on stationary models which include nuclear burning and validate these values comparing to the results of the time-dependent code \texttt{MESA}. These simple boundary conditions allow us to explore a large parameter space. We quantify the amount of heat flowing from the envelope into the crust, or viceversa, depending on the mass accretion rate, outburst duration and duty cycle, and especially crust/core physical parameters such as impurities, crustal heating, and neutrino cooling rate. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermonuclear Heating of Accreting Neutron Stars Nava-Callejas, Martin Page, Dany Cavecchi, Yuri High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena We describe a new method to incorporate thermonuclear heating in the envelope of accreting neutron star into long term simulations of their thermal evolution. We obtain boundary conditions for the heat exchange between the envelope and the crust based on stationary models which include nuclear burning and validate these values comparing to the results of the time-dependent code \texttt{MESA}. These simple boundary conditions allow us to explore a large parameter space. We quantify the amount of heat flowing from the envelope into the crust, or viceversa, depending on the mass accretion rate, outburst duration and duty cycle, and especially crust/core physical parameters such as impurities, crustal heating, and neutrino cooling rate. |
| title | Thermonuclear Heating of Accreting Neutron Stars |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02600 |