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The equilibrium properties of the outer crust of cold nonaccreting magnetars (i.e. neutron stars endowed with very strong magnetic fields) are studied using the latest experimental atomic mass data complemented with a microscopic atomic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-03 N. Chamel , R. L. Pavlov , L. M. Mihailov , Ch. J. Velchev , Zh. K. Stoyanov , Y. D. Mutafchieva , M. D. Ivanovich , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

Models of rotationally-driven dynamos in stellar radiative zones have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular momentum and chemical composition can dominate over the otherwise purely hydrodynamic processes. A proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adrian T. Potter , Shashikumar M. Chitre , Christopher A. Tout

Neutron stars are known to host extremely powerful magnetic fields. Among other effects, one of the consequences of harbouring such fields is the deformation of the neutron star structure, leading, together with rotation, to the emission of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 J. Soldateschi , N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

We study low-amplitude crustal oscillations of slowly rotating relativistic stars consisting of a central fluid core and an outer thin solid crust. We estimate the effect of rotation on the torsional toroidal modes and on the interfacial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Vavoulidis , K. D. Kokkotas , A. Stavridis

The evolution of the r-mode instability is likely to be accompanied by secular kinematic effects which will produce differential rotation with large scale drifts of fluid elements, mostly in the azimuthal direction. As first discussed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Luciano Rezzolla , Frederick L. Lamb , Dragoljub Markovic , Stuart L. Shapiro

(1) Background: for the study of highly magnetized neutron stars observed as magnetars, and to quantify the effect of this intense magnetic field onto the star's structure and shape which can be particularly relevant for the study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Debarati Chatterjee , Daw Guttmann , Jérôme Novak , Micaela Oertel , Martin Jakob Steil

It is well-known that the 5D equations without sources may be reduced to the 4D ones with sources, provided an appropriate definition for the energy-momentum tensor of matter in terms of the extra part of the geometry.The advantage consists…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Maria C. Neacsu

Rotating relativistic stars are receiving significant attention in recent years, because of the information they can yield about the equation of state of matter at extremely high densities and because they are one of the more possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Nikolaos Stergioulas

Rotating magnetic structures are common in astrophysics, from vortex tubes and tornados in the Sun all the way to jets in different astrophysical systems. The physics of these objects often combine inertial, magnetic, gas pressure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Manuel Luna , Eric Priest , Fernando Moreno-Insertis

We study relativistic stars in the context of scalar tensor theories of gravity that try to account for the observed cosmic acceleration and satisfy the local gravity constraints via the chameleon mechanism. More specifically, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 E. Babichev , D. Langlois

It is known that the mass of magnetized relativistic compact star is larger than that of non-magnetized one for the same equation of state and central density, albeit the excess of mass is sizable only if the magnetic fields are strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Koji Uryu , Shijun Yoshida , Eric Gourgoulhon , Charalampos Markakis , Kotaro Fujisawa , Antonios Tsokaros , Keisuke Taniguchi , Mina Zamani , Lambros Boukas

Magnetars are compact stars which are observationally determined to have very strong surface magnetic fields of the order of $10^{14}-10^{15}$G. The centre of the star can potentially have a magnetic field several orders of magnitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-16 Ritam Mallick , Stefan Schramm

Modelling isolated rotating stars at any rotation rate is a challenge for the next generation of stellar models. These models will couple dynamical aspects of rotating stars, like angular momentum and chemicals transport, with classical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michel Rieutord , Francisco Espinosa Lara

The current work investigates the structural properties of neutron stars in the presence of a strong magnetic field within the framework of f(R,T) modified gravity, where the matter-geometry coupling leads to deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Charul Rathod , M. Mishra , Prasanta Kumar Das

We obtained the magnetic field configurations, including both poloidal and toroidal components, throughout the interior and exterior of magnetars using a realistic equation of state. We divided the magnetized star into the hydromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-01 Kotaro Fujisawa , Shota Kisaka

With (non-barotropic) equations of state valid even when the neutron, proton and electron content of neutron star cores is not in beta equilibrium, we study inertial and composition gravity modes of relativistic rotating neutron stars. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Villain , S. Bonazzola , P. Haensel

Angular momentum evolution in low-mass stars is determined by initial conditions during star formation, stellar structure evolution, and the behaviour of stellar magnetic fields. Here we show that the empirical picture of angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ansgar Reiners , Subhanjoy Mohanty

Low-metallicity star formation poses a central problem of cosmology, as it determines the characteristic mass scale and distribution for the first and second generations of stars forming in our Universe. Here, we present a comprehensive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 Thomas Peters , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Rowan J. Smith , Wolfram Schmidt , Ralf S. Klessen

We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Vidotto , M. Jardine , J. Morin , J. F. Donati , M. Opher , T. I. Gombosi

We present a self-consistent model for the study of the structure of a neutron star in strong magnetic fields. Starting from a microscopic Lagrangian, this model includes the effect of the magnetic field on the equation of state, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Debarati Chatterjee , Thomas Elghozi , Jerome Novak , Micaela Oertel