Cooling of Color Superconducting Compact Stars

Abstract

We review the status of research on the cooling of compact stars, with emphasis on the influence of color superconducting quark matter phases. Although a consistent microscopic approach is not yet available, severe constraints on the phase structure of matter at high densities come from recent mass and cooling observations of compact stars.

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the Johns Hopkins Workshop on 'Strong Matter in the Heaven', Budapest, August 1-3, 2005