M. Gearheart

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic survey of the range of predictions of the neutron star inner crust composition, crust-core transition densities and pressures, and density range of the nuclear "pasta" phases at the bottom of the crust provided by the compressible liquid drop model in the light of current experimental and theoretical constraints on model parameters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of nuclear shapes at the bottom of the inner crust of the neutron star inner crust -nuclear "pasta" - on observational phenomena are estimated by comparing the limiting cases that those phases have a vanishing shear modulus and that they have the shear modulation of a crystalline solid.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic survey of the range of predictions of the neutron star inner crust composition, crust-core transition densities and pressures, and density range of the nuclear ''pasta' phases at the bottom of the crust provided by the compressible liquid drop model in the light of current experimental and theoretical constraints on model parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on six sets of observations and proposed explanations: i) the cooling rate of the neutron star in Cassiopeia A, confronting cooling models which include enhanced cooling in the nuclear pasta regions of the inner crust; ii) the upper limit of the observed periods of young X-ray pulsars, confronting models of magnetic field decay in the crust caused by the high resistivity of nuclear pasta layer; iii) glitches from the Vela pulsar, confronting the paradigm that they arise due to a sudden recoupling of the crustal neutron superflu

TL;DR: The sensitivity to the slope of the symmetry energy of such models, and constraints extracted from confronting them with observations, is examined in this article, where the authors focus on six sets of observations and proposed explanations.