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The Urca process is especially important in the cooling of white dwarfs, where a lepton (usually an electron) is absorbed by the nucleus of an ion and then convectively carried away from the core of a star. Then, a beta decay occurs. Convection then carries the element back into the interior of the
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The process can also be essential in the cooling of neutron stars. If a neutron star contains a central core in which the direct Urca-process is operative, the cooling timescale shortens by many orders of magnitude.
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star, and the cycle repeats many times. Because the neutrinos emitted during this process are unlikely to be reabsorbed, this is effectively a cooling mechanism for white dwarfs.
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The direct Urca processes are the simplest neutrino-emitting processes and are thought to be central in the cooling of neutron stars. They have the general form
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P. Haensel (1995). "Urca processes in dense matter and neutron star cooling".
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D. K. Nadyozhin (1995). "Gamow and the physics and evolution of stars".
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and which is assumed to take part in cooling processes in
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Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
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astroparticle physics
neutrino
neutron stars
white dwarfs
George Gamow
Mário Schenberg
Cassino da Urca
Urca
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"Urca process"
Space Science Reviews
Bibcode
1995SSRv...74..455N
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