Comment on ``Signal of Quark Deconfinement in the Timing Structure of Pulsar Spin-Down''

摘要

This is a comment on a paper by Glendenning, Pei, and Weber (Phys. Rev.Lett., 79, 1603, 1997), where the authors gave an incorrect estimate of theevent rate and neglected the important gravitational energy release. Previouswork on the same subject is reviewed, and a new suggestion is made to linkquark-hadron phase transitions with soft gamma-ray repeaters.