Crosstalk

E. Cackett: Crustal cooling in accretion heated neutron stars.
Quasi persistent sources provide a rare opportunity to observe crustal cooling ... and we think we've measured the thermal relaxation time of the crust in 2 sources.

A. Steiner: Symmetry energy, crust thickness and KS 1731.
The physics of neutron star crusts is very thorny, the theorist have much work to do, yet we are a vibrant community which is making progress! Keep the observations coming, contact us with questions or concerns anytime. Don't give in to dark energy.

N. Sandulescu: Nuclear Superfluidity and Cooling Time of Neutron Star Crust.
No conclusions but in summary: Pairing in the crust can significantly change the thermal diffusion time.

C. Heinke: Constraints on Neutron Star Physics from Transiently.
Accreting Neutron Stars in Quiescence.
Messages:

• Zero-B hydrogen-atmosphere models are trustworthy.

• M,R constraints from neutron stars in globular clusters are sound and getting interesting
  

• Cooling rates for soft x-ray transients are strictest constraints and disallow minimal cooling.

Questions:

• What range of nuclear EOS are considered reasonable.

K. Levenfish: Thermal steady-states of neutron stars in soft X-ray transients vs deep crustal heating.
Proton superfluidity is strong in the core and neutron superfluidity weak.

E. Brown: Crust electron captures: Implications for superbursts and transient lightcurves.
For the nuclear physicists:
Transport properties: what is the thermal conductivity of pasta (and sauce) - are there reasonable upper and lower limits. Need better understanding of the crust/core interface.

For the astrophysicists
Need larger sample of superburst and burst at low accretion rates. Synthesis of disparate observations: isolated cooling neutron stars, magnetars, X-ray bursters, X-ray transients share the same nuclear physics.

S. Reddy. Weak interactions in superfluids and cooling rates in the inner crust.
Neutrino rates in matter can differ by factors of a few but if larger factors are proposed - be skeptical - ask lots of questions.

Forget about about PBF in the vector channel.

J. Dey: Stellar and terrestial observations from the mean field large colour QCD models.
For astrophysicists: Observations are good.
For nuclear model people: u r doing well.
For phenomenologist like us the message is: look for discrepancies and try simple QCD models.