Speaker
Description
We propose an astrophysical scenario in which hadronic stars and quark stars coexist. While hadronic stars would populate a branch of very compact objects (radii measurements indicate the existence of such configurations in some cases), quark stars would instead populate a branch of very massive stars (e.g. the two solar mass star PSR J1614-2230). The conversion process between a hadronic star and a quark star will be discussed in its turbulent and diffusive regimes and its phenomenological consequences for long and short gamma-ray-bursts will be also presented in connection with the protomagnetar model.
Based on:
Phys.Rev. D89 (2014) no.4, 043014
Phys.Rev. C92 (2015) no.4, 045801
Eur.Phys.J. A52 (2016) no.2, 40
Eur.Phys.J. A52 (2016) no.2, 41
Phys.Rev. D93 (2016) no.10, 103001
