27 September 2010 to 1 October 2010
CSIR Convention Centre
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Locating the inner edge of a neutron star crust

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CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR, Pretoria
Poster Track D1 - Astrophysics

Speaker

Mr Milton van Rooy (Stellenbosch University)

Description

Neutron star properties are studied and the transition density from the core to the crust is calculated using fifteen parameter sets of the effective Skyrme nucleon-nucleon interaction, within a method called the dynamical method. Results are used to verify published values.

Primary author

Mr Milton van Rooy (Stellenbosch University)

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