Are Pulsars Bare Strange Stars?
arXiv:astro-ph/9909484
Abstract
It is believed that pulsars are neutron stars or strange stars with crusts. However we suggest here that pulsars may be bare strange stars (i.e., strange stars without crust). Due to rapid rotation and strong emission, young strange stars produced in supernova explosions should be bare when they act as radio pulsars. Because of strong magnetic field, two polar-crusts would shield the polar caps of an accreting strange star. Such a suggestion can be checked by further observations.
2 pages, no figures, LaTeX, Contribution to IAU Colloquium 177: Pulsar Astronomy -- 2000 and Beyond