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The astrophysical origin of elements synthesized through the rapid neutron capture process ($r-$process) is a long standing mystery. The hot and dense environments of core-collapse supernovae have been suggested as potential $r-$process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Tejas Prasanna , Matthew S. B. Coleman , Todd A. Thompson , Brian D. Metzger , Anirudh Patel , Bradley S. Meyer

Rotation and magnetism are increasingly recognized as important phenomena in stellar evolution. Surface magnetic fields from a few to $20{,}000\,$G have been observed and models have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Leo G. Quentin , Christopher A. Tout

Soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars are thought to be magnetars, neutron stars with strong magnetic fields of order $\mathord{\sim} 10^{13}$--$10^{15} \, \mathrm{gauss}$. These objects emit intermittent bursts of hard X-rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Ryan Quitzow-James , James Brau , James Clark , Michael W. Coughlin , Scott B. Coughlin , Raymond Frey , Paul Schale , Dipongkar Talukder , Eric Thrane

Possible origins of the magnetic fields of neutron stars include inheritance from the main sequence progenitor and dynamo action at some stage of evolution of progenitor. Inheritance is not sufficient to explain the fields of magnetars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 H. C. Spruit

Stars of spectral types O and B produce neutron stars (NSs) after supernova explosions. Most of NSs are strongly magnetised including normal radio pulsars with $B \propto 10^{12}$ G and magnetars with $B\propto 10^{14}$ G. A fraction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Ekaterina I. Makarenko , Andrei P. Igoshev , A. F. Kholtygin

We suggest that neutron stars experienced at birth three related physical changes, which may originate in magneto-rotational instabilities: (i) an increase in period from the initial value P_0 to the current value P_s, implying a change of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-09-17 Ricardo Heras

Fast-spinning strongly magnetized newborn neutron stars, including nascent magnetars, are popularly implemented as the engine of luminous stellar explosions. Here, we consider the scenario that they power various stripped-envelope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-07 Kazumi Kashiyama , Kohta Murase , Imre Bartos , Kenta Kiuchi , Raffaella Margutti

Magnetars are neutron stars (NSs) with extreme magnetic fields of strength $5 \times 10^{13}$ - $10^{15}$ G. They exhibit transient, highly energetic events, such as short X-ray flashes, bursts and giant flares, all of which are powered by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-20 Andrei P. Igoshev , Rainer Hollerbach , Toby Wood , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We describe the dynamical behavior of newborn pulsars modeled as homogeneous rotating spheroids. The dynamical evolution is triggered by the escape of trapped neutrinos, provided the initial equilibrium configuration. It is shown that for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-17 Hilario Rodrigues , Ana Maria Endler , Sergio B. Duarte , Marcelo Chiapparini

In the presence of strong magnetic field reported to have been observed on the surface of some neutron stars and on what are called Magnetars, a host of physical phenomenon from the birth of a neutron star to free streaming neutrino cooling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashok Goyal

Observations of $\gamma$-ray from blazars suggest the presence of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium, which may require a primordial origin. Intense enough primordial magnetic fields can arise from theories of dynamical electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Martin Arteaga Tupia , Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia

We consider the early cooling evolution of strongly magnetized strange stars in a CFL phase with high gap Delta > 100 MeV. We demonstrate how this model may explain main features of the gamma-ray burst phenomena and also yield a strong star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Berdermann , D. Blaschke , H. Grigorian , D. N. Voskresensky

In this work we explore the evolution of magnetic fields inside strongly magnetized neutron stars in axisymmetry. We model numerically the coupled field evolution in the core and the crust. Our code models the Hall drift and Ohmic effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Ashley Bransgrove , Yuri Levin , Andrei Beloborodov

We use numerical MHD to look at the stability of a possible poloidal field in neutron stars (Flowers & Ruderman 1977), and follow its unstable evolution, which leads to the complete decay of the field. We then model a neutron star after the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Braithwaite , H. C. Spruit

Magnetar Giant Flares (MGFs) are the most energetic non-catastrophic transients known to originate from stellar objects. The first discovered events were nearby. In recent years, several extragalactic events have been identified, implying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Paz Beniamini , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Aaron Trigg , Cecilia Chirenti , Eric Burns , George Younes , Michela Negro , Jonathan Granot

Neutron stars contain persistent, ordered magnetic fields that are the strongest known in the Universe. However, their magnetic fluxes are similar to those in magnetic A and B stars and white dwarfs, suggesting that flux conservation during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andreas Reisenegger

We explore the thermal and magnetic-field structure of a late-stage proto-neutron star. We find the dominant contribution to the entropy in different regions of the star, from which we build a simplified equation of state for the hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 S. K. Lander , P. Haensel , B. Haskell , J. L. Zdunik , M. Fortin

We present a population synthesis study of the observed properties of the magnetars, which allows for X-ray selection effects, investigating the hypothesis that they are drawn from a population of progenitors that are more massive than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lilia Ferrario , D. T. Wickramasinghe

(ABBREVIATED) We consider the structure of neutron star magnetospheres threaded by large-scale electrical currents, and the effect of resonant Compton scattering by the charge carriers (both electrons and ions) on the emergent X-ray spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-04 C. Thompson , M. Lyutikov , S. R. Kulkarni

It was recently demonstrated that the evolution of helical magnetic field in the primordial plasma at temperatures $T\gtrsim10$ MeV is affected by the phenomenon of chiral quantum anomaly in the electroweak model, leading to a possibility…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Oleksandr Tomalak , Yuri Shtanov