Impact of error analysis on the composition the outer crust of a neutron star. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Neill, D; Medler, K; Pastore, A; Barton, C
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Volume 1643(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012060
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: By means of bootstrap technique, we perform a full error analysis on the Duflo-Zucker mass model. We illustrate the impact of such study on the predicted chemical composition of the outer crust of a non-accreting neutron star. We define an existence probability for each nuclear species as a function of the depth of the crust. We observe that, due to statistical uncertainties, instead of having a well defined transition between two successive layers, we have a mixture of two species.