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