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Thermal surface emissions have now been detected from more than a dozen isolated neutron stars, including radio pulsars, radio-quiet neutron stars and magnetars. These detections can potentially provide important information on the interior…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Lai , W. C. G. Ho

Magnetars, isolated neutron stars with magnetic field strengths typically $\gtrsim10^{14}$~G, exhibit distinctive months-long outburst epochs during which strong evolution of soft X-ray pulse profiles, along with nonthermal magnetospheric…

Astrophysical current layers, e.g., in pulsar winds, can be electrically charged, while the plasma is charge-symmetric, $e^\pm$. Using PIC simulations, we investigate dynamics and plasmoid formation (tearing instability) in charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Maxim Lyutikov

Using high-resolution AthenaK simulations of a twisted toroidal flux tube, we study the flux emergence of magnetic structures in the shear layer of a hot massive neutron star typical of a binary neutron star remnant. High-resolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Jacob Fields , David Radice , Peter Hammond

A relativistic degenerate neutron gas in equilibrium with a background of electrons and protons in a magnetic field exerts its pressure anisotropically, having a smaller value perpendicular than along the magnetic field. For critical fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-07 A. Perez Martinez , H. Perez Rojas , H. J. Mosquera Cuesta

A phase transition from paramagnetism to ferromagnetism in neutron star interior is explored. Since there is $^3$P$_2$ neutron superfluid in neutron star interior, it can be treated as a system of magnetic dipoles. Under the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-12 Qiu He Peng , Hao Tong

We model the interaction between the wind from a newly formed rapidly rotating magnetar and the surrounding progenitor. In the first few seconds after core collapse the magnetar inflates a bubble of plasma and magnetic fields behind the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson

Several topics in the theory of magnetized turbulence are reviewed with application to star formation and the interstellar medium. The density, pressure, and temperature distribution in a turbulent interstellar medium is described in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Many astrophysical sources of high energy emission, such as black hole magnetospheres, superstrongly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars), and probably relativistic jets in Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma Ray Bursts involve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Komissarov , M. Barkov , M. Lyutikov

Rotating deformed neutron stars are important potential sources for groundbased gravitational-wave interferometers such as LIGO, GE0600 and VIRGO. One mechanism that may lead to significant non-asymmetries is the internal magnetic field. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Haskell , L. Samuelsson , K. Glampedakis , N. Andersson

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

The stability properties of newly born neutron stars, or proto--neutron stars, are considered. We take into account dissipative processes, such as neutrino transport and viscosity, in the presence of a magnetic field. In order to find the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Juan A. Miralles , Jose A. Pons , V. Urpin

Magnetars have already been a potential candidate as gravitational wave sources that could be detected by current and future terrestrial as well as ground based gravitational wave detectors. In this article, we focus on the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-22 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

With Teragauss magnetic fields, surface gravity sufficiently strong to significantly modify light paths, central densities higher than that of a standard nucleus, and rotation periods of only hundredths of a second, young neutron stars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

It is suggested in this paper that the `bare' strange star might be not bare, and there could be a magnetosphere around it. As a strange star might be an intensely magnetized rotator, the induced unipolar electric field would be large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ren Xin Xu , Guo Jun Qiao

Magnetars are conjectured to be highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs). Strong internal magnetic field and elasticity in the crust may deform the stars and lead to free precession. We study the precession dynamics of triaxially-deformed NSs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-26 Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Gregory Desvignes , David Ian Jones , Michael Kramer , Garvin Yim

The effect of magnetic fields on the frequencies of toroidal oscillations of neutron stars is derived to lowest order. Interpreting the fine structure in the QPO power spectrum of magnetars following giant flares reported by Strohmayer and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-17 R. Shaisultanov , D. Eichler

We consider a model where the strong magnetic fields of magnetars arise from a high baryon density, magnetized core. In this framework magnetars are distinguished from pulsars by their higher masses and central density. For magnetars, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. D. Hari Dass , Vikram Soni

We consider a newly-born millisecond magnetar, focusing on its interaction with the dense stellar plasma in which it is initially embedded. We argue that the confining pressure and inertia of the surrounding plasma acts to collimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Andrew I. MacFadyen

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a convectively-stable layer around the neutrinosphere is simulated by a three-dimensional model of supernova core. To resolve MRI-unstable modes, a thin layer approximation considering only the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake