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In this work, we study the effects of magnetic fields and rotation on the structure and composition of proto-neutron stars (PNS's). A hadronic chiral SU(3) model is applied to cold neutron stars (NS) and proto-neutron stars with trapped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 B. Franzon , V. Dexheimer , S. Schramm

We investigate new solutions for magnetized neutron stars with a barotropic core in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium and a magneto-elastic crust, which was neglected by previous studies concerning stars in MHD equilibrium. The Lorentz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Kotaro Fujisawa , Yasufumi Kojima , Shota Kisaka

We have investigated some of the properties of dense sub-nuclear matter at the crustal region (both the outer crust and the inner crust region) of a magnetar. The relativistic version of Thomas-Fermi (TF) model is used in presence of strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nandini Nag , Somenath Chakrabarty

We investigate the static properties of the nucleon in the presence of strong magnetic fields and discuss the consequent changes of the nucleon structure, based on the Skyrme model. The results show that at large values of the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Ulugbek Yakhshiev , Hyun-Chul Kim , Makoto Oka

In this work, we study the effect of strong magnetic fields on the equation of state (EoS) of warm, homogeneous, Neutron Star (NS) matter in beta equilibrium. NS matter is described within a relativistic mean field (RMF) approximation,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-04 Luigi Scurto , Valéria Carvalho , Helena Pais , Constança Providência

Neutron stars can harbor extremely strong magnetic fields, yet the structure and stability of their magnetic field configuration remain poorly understood. Observations of pulsars indicate that the large-scale external field is predominantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 Aurora Capobianco , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Brynmor Haskell , Jacob Fields

This study was focused on the investigation of a magnetic field penetrating from the core of a neutron star to its surface. The range of possible field configurations in the intermediate solid crust is less limited owing to the elastic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Yasufumi Kojima , Shijun Yoshida

We study static neutron stars with poloidal magnetic fields and a simple class of electric current distributions consistent with the requirement of stationarity. For this class of electric current distributions, we find that magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Y. Cardall , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer

We present calculations of magnetic field evolution by the Hall effect and Ohmic decay in neutron star crusts. We first discuss when and for which neutron stars the Hall effect is important relative to Ohmic decay. We compute the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew Cumming , Phil Arras , Ellen G. Zweibel

Although the detailed structure of neutron stars remains unknown, their equilibrium temperatures lie well below the Fermi temperature of dense nuclear matter, suggesting that the nucleons in the stars' core form Cooper pairs and exhibit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Vanessa Graber

This paper addresses the evolution of an axially symmetric magnetic field in the core of a neutron star. The matter in the core is modeled as a system of two fluids, namely neutrons and charged particles, with slightly different velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 F. Castillo , N. A. Moraga , M. E. Gusakov , J. A. Valdivia , A. Reisenegger

Neutron stars are the endpoint of the life of intermediate mass stars and posses in their cores matter in the most extreme conditions in the universe. Besides their extremes of temperature (found in proto-neutron stars) and densities,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-07 R. O. Gomes , S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer

Neutron stars are extremely strong cosmic magnets which fields are expected to decay with time. Here we report on the simple test of this process. Adopting a novel approach, we have estimated surface magnetic fields $B$ for 76 radiopulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-01 Anton Biryukov , Artyom Astashenok , Sergey Karpov , Gregory Beskin

Neutron stars with very strong surface magnetic fields have been suggested as the site for the origin of observed soft gamma repeaters (SGRs). In this paper we investigate the influence of such strong magnetic fields on the properties and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 In-Saeng Suh , G. J. Mathews

We study the effect of strong magnetic fields, of the order of $10^{18}$-$10^{19}$ G, on the instability region of nuclear matter at subsaturation densities. Relativistic nuclear models both with constant couplings and with density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-18 A. Rabhi , C. Providencia , J. Da Providencia

We study the magnetic field generation in a neutron star within the model based on the magnetic field instability in the nuclear matter owing to the electron-nucleon parity violating interaction. We suggest that the growing magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

Some special features of magnetically deformed multi-electron atoms in the crustal region of strongly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars) are studied with the relativistic version of semi-classical Thomas-Fermi model. An analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nandini Nag , Somenath Chakrabarty

The properties of nuclei embedded in an electron gas are studied within the relativistic mean-field approach. These studies are relevant for nuclear properties in astrophysical environments such as neutron-star crusts and supernova…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas J. Buervenich , Igor N. Mishustin , Walter Greiner

Nuclear matter properties based on a relativistic approach suitable for the description of multi-component systems are calculated. We use a set of nuclear relativistic mean-field models that satisfy acceptable nuclear matter properties and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-21 Helena Pais , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

Neutron stars harbour extremely strong magnetic fields within their solid outer crust. The topology of this field strongly influences the surface temperature distribution, and hence the star's observational properties. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Davide De Grandis , Roberto Turolla , Toby S. Wood , Silvia Zane , Roberto Taverna , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos