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The total binding energy of compact stars is the sum of the gravitational binding energy $(BE)_g$ and the nuclear binding energy $(BE)_n$, the last being related to the microphysics of the interactions. While the first is positive (binding) both for hadronic stars and for strange quark stars, the second is large and negative for hadronic stars (anti-binding) and either small and negative (anti-binding) or positive (binding) for strange quark stars. A hadronic star can convert into a strange quark star with a larger radius because the consequent reduction of $(BE)_g$ is over-compensated by the large increase in $(BE)_n$. Thus, the total binding energy increases due to the conversion and the process is exothermic. Depending on the equations of state of hadronic matter and quark matter and on the baryonic mass of the star, the contrary is obviously also possible, namely the conversion of hadronic stars into strange quark stars having smaller radii, a situation more often discussed in the literature. We provide a condition that is sufficient and in most of the phenomenologically relevant cases also necessary in order to form strange quark stars with larger radii while satisfying the ex

Author

Drago, Alessandro; Pagliara, Giuseppe

Published

2020

Language

EN