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Landau level-superfluid modified factor and effective X/$\gamma$-ray coefficient of a magnetar

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2013-12-11 v1

Abstract

As soon as the energy of electrons near the Fermi surface are higher than QQ, the threshold energy of inverse β\beta- decay, the electron capture process will dominate. The resulting high-energy neutrons will destroy anisotropic 3P2{}^3P_2 neutron superfluid Cooper pairs. By colliding with the neutrons produced in the process n+(nn)n+n+nn+ (n\uparrow n\downarrow)\longrightarrow n+ n+ n, the kinetic energy of the outgoing neutrons will be transformed into thermal energy. The transformed thermal energy would transported from the star interior to the star surface by conduction, then would be transformed into radiation energy as soft X-rays and gamma-rays. After a highly efficient modulation within the pulsar magnetosphere, the surface thermal emission (mainly soft X/γ\gamma-ray emission) has been shaped into a spectrum with the observed characteristics of magnetars. By introducing two important parameters: Landau level-superfluid modified factor and effective X/γ\gamma-ray coefficient, we numerically simulate the process of magnetar cooling and magnetic field decay, and then compute magnetars' soft X/γ\gamma-ray luminosities LXL_{X}. Further, we obtain aschematic diagrams of LXL_{X} as a function of magnetic field strength BB. The observations are compared with the calculations.

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@article{arxiv.1312.2720,
  title  = {Landau level-superfluid modified factor and effective X/$\gamma$-ray coefficient of a magnetar},
  author = {Z. F. Gao and Q. H. Peng and N. Wang and C. K. Chou and W. S. Huo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2720},
  year   = {2013}
}

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13 Pages, 2 Figures, Published in Astrophys. Space. Sci. 2011. 336, P.427-439