Magnetic field effects on some astrophysical properties of Quark Stars

TL;DR

This study investigates how magnetic fields influence the stability, equation of state, and structural properties of quark stars, revealing that magnetic fields enhance stability and reduce the mass-radius ratio.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of magnetized strange quark matter using the MIT Bag model, highlighting magnetic field effects on stability and star configurations.

Findings

Magnetic field increases stability of strange quark matter.

Energy per baryon decreases with stronger magnetic fields.

Magnetic fields reduce the mass-radius ratio of quark stars.

Abstract

This thesis aims to study how amending certain astrophysical observable of quark stars due to presence of magnetic field. To do this we need to obtain Equation of State (EOS) and consider the stability of Strange Quark Matter (made up of quarks u, d and s) cold dense and magnetized in stellar equilibrium (beta equilibrium, conservation of the baryonic number and charge neutrality). We will work using the phenomenological MIT Bag model. The stability of the Magnetized Strange Quark Matter (MSQM) is studied taking into account the variation of parameters from the model: s quark mass, baryonic density, magnetic field and the Bag parameter. Results obtained were compared with those of magnetized normal quark matter (only u and d quarks in beta equilibrium) as well as the Strange Quark Matter (SQM). It is found that the energy per baryon decreases with the increasing magnetic field which implies that the MSQM is more stable than SQM. The Equations of State previously obtained are used to obtain stable configurations of magnetized strange stars checking that the magnetic field helps to reduce Mass-Radius (M-R) ratio of the star.