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We present the results of numerical simulations of stationary, spherically outflowing, e ± pair winds, with total luminosities in the range 1034–1042 ergs s−1. In the concrete example described here, the wind injection source is a hot, bare, strange star, predicted to be a powerful source of e ± pairs created by the Coulomb barrier at the quark surface. We find that photons dominate in the emerging emission, and the emerging photon spectrum is rather hard and differs substantially from the thermal spectrum expected from a neutron star with the same luminosity. This might help distinguish the putative bare strange stars from neutron stars.
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Aksenov, A.G., Milgrom, M., Usov, V.V. (2007). Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars. In: Zane, S., Turolla, R., Page, D. (eds) Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5998-8_85
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