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Low-Mass Quark Stars

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More and more observational hints of quark stars are proposed these years though pulsars are considered conventionally to be normal neutron stars. The existence of low-mass quark stars is a direct consequence of the possibility that pulsar-like stars are actually quark stars, because of the ability that quark matter can confine itself by color interaction. After a brief introduction to the study of quark stars, the various astrophysical implications of low-mass quark stars are investigated. It is addressed that some of the transient unidentified γ -ray sources are probably merging quark stars. The observability of low-mass quark stars is discussed.

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Xu, R. Low-Mass Quark Stars. Astrophys Space Sci 297, 179–190 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-005-7620-z

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