The fastest rotating pulsar: A strange star?

Abstract

According to the observational limits on the radius and mass, the fastest rotating pulsar (PSR 1937+21) is probably a strange star, or at least some neutron star equations of state should be ruled out, if we suggest that a dipole magnetic field is relevant to its radio emission. We presume that the millisecond pulsar is a strange star with {\em much} low mass, small radius, and weak magnetic moment.

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, to be published in Chinese Physics Letters (2001), http://vega.bac.pku.edu.cn/~rxxu