Confronting Neutron Star Cooling Theories with New Observations
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Confronting Neutron Star Cooling Theories with New Observations S. Tsuruta Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA [email protected] M.A. Teter Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA [email protected] T. Takatsuka Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan [email protected] T. Tatsumi Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan [email protected] and R. Tamagaki Kamitakano Maeda-cho 26-5, Kyoto 606-0097, Japan [email protected]
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