Gravitational phase transition of heavy neutrino matter

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作者
Bilic, N [1 ]
Tsiklauri, D
Viollier, RD
机构
[1] Univ Cape Town, Dept Phys, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa
[2] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
[3] Abastumani Astrophys Observ, Dept Theoret Astrophys, GE-380060 Tbilisi, Georgia
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PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, VOL 40: NEUTRINOS IN ASTRO, PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS | 1998年 / 40卷
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10.1016/S0146-6410(98)00004-0
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
In the framework of the Thomas-Fermi model at finite temperature, we show that a cooling nondegenerate gas of massive neutrinos will, at a certain temperature, undergo a phase transition in which quasi-degenerate supermassive neutrino stars are formed through gravitational collapse. For neutrinos in the mass range of 10 to 25 keV/c(2), these compact dark objects could mimic the role of supermassive black holes that are usually assumed to exist at the centres of galaxies and quasistellar objects. Astrophysical implications and constraints on the neutrino mass are discussed for this scenario.
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