Irradiated stars with convective envelopes

Convective Envelopes in Solar - Type Stars :

Cooling Neutron Stars with Accreted Envelopes

Gilles Chabrier1, Alexander Y. Potekhin2;1;3, and Dmitry G. Yakovlev2 ABSTRACT The relationships between the e ective surface temperature Te and internal temperature Tb of nonmagnetized neutron stars with and without accreted envelopes are calculated for Te > 5 104 K. We use updated equations of state and radiative opacities, and we improve considerably the electron conductive opacity. We exami...

Minimal models of cooling neutron stars with accreted envelopes

We study the ‘minimal’ cooling scenario of superfluid neutron stars with nucleon cores, where the direct Urca process is forbidden and enhanced cooling is produced by neutrino emission due to the Cooper pairing of neutrons. Extending our recent previous work, we include the effects of surface accreted envelopes of light elements. We employ the phenomenological density-dependent critical tempera...

Internal temperatures and cooling of neutron stars with accreted envelopes

The relationships between the effective surface (Teff ) and internal temperatures of neutron stars (NSs) with and without accreted envelopes are calculated for Teff > 5 × 104 K using new data on the equation of state and opacities in the outer NS layers. We examine various models of accreted layers (H, He, C, O shells produced by nuclear transformations in accreted matter). We employ new Opacit...

Thermal structure and cooling of neutron stars with magnetized envelopes

The thermal structure of neutron stars with magnetized envelopes is studied using modern physics input. The relation between the internal (Tint) and local surface temperatures is calculated and fitted by analytic expressions for magnetic field strengths B from 0 to 10 G and arbitrary inclination of the field lines to the surface. The luminosity of a neutron star with dipole magnetic field is ca...