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arXiv:astro-ph/0310049·v1·Astrophysics

RX J1856.5-3754: A strange star with solid quark surface?

X.L. Zhang (UAH)🇺🇸 · R.X. Xu (PKU)🇨🇳 · S.N. Zhang (THU)🇺🇸

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Abstract

Within the realms of the possibility of solid quark matter, we fitted the 500ks Chandra LETG/HRC data for RX J1856.5-3754 with a phenomenological spectral model, and found that electric conductivity of quark matter on the stellar surface is about > 1.2 x 10^{18} s^{-1}.

Comments: 2 page and no figure, IAU Symposium No.218, or at http://vega.bac.pku.edu.cn/~rxxu/publications/index_C.htm

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