Q star
Not to be confused with quark star.
A Q-Star, also known as a gray hole, is hypothetical type of a compact, heavy neutron star with an exotic state of matter. The Q stands for a conserved particle number. A Q-Star may be mistaken for a stellar black hole.
Types of Q-stars
- SUSY Q-ball[1]
- B-ball, stable Q-balls with a large baryon number B. They may exist in neutron stars that have absorbed Q-ball(s).[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 Properties and signatures of supersymmetric Q-balls, Alexander Kusenko, 2006
External links
- Abstract, Are Q-stars a serious threat for stellar-mass black hole candidates?, Miller J.C., Shahbaz T., Nolan L.A, 1997
- Abstract, No observational proof of the black-hole event-horizon, Marek A. Abramowicz, Wlodek Kluzniak, Jean-Pierre Lasota, 2002
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/16/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.