Quark matter and the masses and radii of compact stars
Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0606524
From: Mark G. Alford [view email]
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:47:39 GMT (12kb)
Quark matter and the masses and radii of compact stars
Authors: Mark Alford, David Blaschke, Alessandro Drago, Thomas Klahn, Giuseppe Pagliara, Juergen Schaffner-Bielich
Comments: 3 pages, LaTeX
Ozel, in a recent reanalysis of EXO 0748-676 observational data (astro-ph/0605106), concluded that quark matter probably does not exist in the center of compact stars. We show that the data is actually consistent with the presence of quark matter in compact stars.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606524