Soft equations of state for neutron-star matter ruled out by EXO 0748 - 676

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7097, 2006, Pages 1115-1117

  Ozel F ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CONDENSATE TREATMENT; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NEUTRONS; PRECISION BALANCES;

ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; NEUTRON-STAR; QUARKS; TERRESTRIAL EXPERIMENTS;

EQUATIONS OF STATE;

ASTRONOMY; EQUATION OF STATE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUTRON; PHYSICS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARK;

EID: 33745585333     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04858     Document Type: Article

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