Authors Referees APS Members |
November 2007, to be published in Physical Review D15
WIMP annihilation and cooling of neutron stars
We study the effect of WIMP annihilation on the temperature of a neutron star. We shall argue that the released energy due to WIMP annihilation inside the neutron stars, might affect the temperature of stars older than 10 million years, flattening out the temperature at $\sim 10^4$ K for a typical neutron star. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
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