Figure 70

Figure 70: Effective surface temperature (as seen by an observer at infinity) of a 1.5 M ⊙ neutron star during the first hundred years for different crust models. Dotted lines: cooling without neutrino emission from the crust (upper line), infinite κ at ρ > 1010 g cm −3. Solid line: cooling curve for the best values of κ, C v, and Q ν. Dashed line C = 0 n: dripped neutrons heat capacity removed. Dashed curve κ: thermal conductivity calculated assuming point-like nuclei. Two other dashed lines: neutrino emission processes removed except for plasmon decay (pl) or electron-nucleus Bremsstrahlung (eZ). See also line 1.5M ⊙ in Table 2 of [167].