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Absorption features caused by oscillations of electrons on the surface of a quark star
Phys. Rev. D 85, 023008 – Published 23 January, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.023008
Abstract
If quark stars exist, they may be enveloped in thin electron layers (electron seas), which uniformly surround the entire star. These layers will be affected by the magnetic fields of quark stars in such a way that the electron seas would transmit hydromagnetic cyclotron waves, as studied in this paper. Particular attention is devoted to vortex hydrodynamical oscillations of the electron sea. The frequency spectrum of these oscillations is derived in analytic form. If the thermal x-ray spectra of quark stars are modulated by vortex hydrodynamical vibrations, the thermal spectra of compact stars (foremost, central compact objects and x-ray dim isolated neutron stars) could be used to verify the existence of these vibrational modes observationally. The central compact object 1E 1207.4-5209 appears particularly interesting in this context, since its absorption features at 0.7 keV and 1.4 keV can be comfortably explained in the framework of the hydrocyclotron oscillation model.
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