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Publications and source records attributed to R. Tamagaki.
We study baryonic superfluidity under the combined pion condensation with delta-mixing, where both condensates of the neutral and charged pions take place in neutron stars. Outline of formulation treating such superfluidity is presented and energy gap calculations show the possibility that critical temperatures are higher than about 1x10^9 K.
For neutron stars with hyperon-mixed core, neutrino emissivity is studied under the equation of state, obtained by introducing repulsive three-body force universal for all baryons so as to assure the maximum mass compatible with the observation. By paying attention to the density-dependence of critical temperatures of baryon superfluids, which reflect the nature of baryon-baryon interaction and control neutron star cooling, we show what neutrino emission processes are efficient in the regions with and without hyperon mixing and remark its implications related to neutron star cooling.
With the successful launch of Chandra and XMM/Newton X-ray space missions combined with the lower-energy band observations, we are in the position where careful comparison of neutron star cooling theories with observations will make it possible to distinguish among various competing theories. For instance, the latest theoretical and observational developments already exclude both nucleon and kaon direct URCA cooling. In this way we can now have realistic hope for determining various important properties, such as the composition, degree of superfluidity, the equation of state and steller radius. These developments should help us obtain better insight into the properties of dense matter.