Influence of strong magnetic field on the structure properties of strange quark stars

TL;DR

This study explores how strong magnetic fields influence the thermodynamic properties and structure of strange quark stars, revealing increased stiffness of the equation of state and greater compactness under intense magnetic conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of magnetic field effects on strange quark matter and star structure using the MIT bag model with density-dependent magnetic fields.

Findings

Magnetic fields stiffen the equation of state of strange quark matter.

Strange quark stars become denser and more compact with stronger magnetic fields.

Results align with observational data of strange star candidates.

Abstract

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of strange quark matter under the strong magnetic field in the framework of the MIT bag model in two cases of bag constants. We consider two cases of the magnetic field, the uniform magnetic field and the density-dependent magnetic field to calculate the equation of state of strange quark matter. For the case of density-dependent magnetic field, we use a Gaussian equation with two free parameters $\beta$ and $\theta$ and use two different sets of the parameters for the magnetic field changes (a slow and a fast decrease of the magnetic field from the center to the surface). Our results show that the energy conditions based on the limitation of the energy-momentum tensor, are satisfied in the corresponding conditions. We also show that the equation of state of strange quark matter becomes stiffer by increasing the magnetic field. In this paper, we also calculate the structure parameters of a pure strange quark star using the equation of state. We investigate the compactification factor ($2M/R$) and the surface redshift of star in different conditions. The results show that the strange quark star is denser than the neutron star and it is more compact in the presence of the stronger magnetic field. As another result, the compactification factor increases when we use a slow increase of the magnetic field from the surface to the center. Eventually, we compare our results with the observational results for some strange star candidates, and we find that the structure of the strange star candidates is comparable to that of the star in our model.