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Neutron stars are among the most fascinating astrophysical sources, being characterized by strong gravity, densities about the nuclear one or even above, and huge magnetic fields. Their observational signatures can be extremely diverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-06 L. Del Zanna , A. G. Pili , B. Olmi , N. Bucciantini , E. Amato

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

The presence of strong magnetic fields in neutron stars, such as in magnetars, may significantly affect their crust-core transition properties and the crust size. This knowledge is crucial in the correct interpretation of astrophysical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Debarati Chatterjee , Francesca Gulminelli , Debora P. Menezes

There is an increasing theoretical and observational evidence that the external magnetic field of magnetars may contain a toroidal component, likely of the same order of the poloidal one. Such "twisted magnetospheres" are threaded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pavan , R. Turolla , S. Zane , L. Nobili

Pulsars are thought to be highly magnetized rotating neutron stars accelerating charged particles along magnetic field lines in their magnetosphere and visible as pulsed emission from the radio wavelength up to high energy X-rays and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-06 J. Petri

The topology of the electromagnetic field around neutron stars severely impacts pulsar physics. While most of the works assume a standard centred dipolar magnetic field model, recently some efforts have been made to explain how inclusion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-27 Anu Kundu , Jerome Petri

Highly magnetised rapidly spinning neutron stars are widely considered to be natural sites for acceleration of charged particles. Powerful acceleration mechanism due to unipolar induction is thought to operate in the magnetospheres of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Rudak

Estimations of magnetic fields of neutron stars, observed as radio and X-ray pulsars, are discussed. It is shown, that theoretical and observational values for different types of radiopulsars are in good correspondence. Magnetic fields of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Electromagnetic waves arise in many area of physics. Solutions are difficult to find in the general case. In this paper, we numerically integrate Maxwell equations in a 3D spherical polar coordinate system. Straightforward finite difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 J. Petri

The magnetic fields of neutron stars have a large range (~3e10 - 1e15 G). There may be a tendency for more highly magnetized neutron stars to come from more massive stellar progenitors, but other factors must also play a role. When combined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Roger A. Chevalier

The interior of a neutron star is likely to be predominantly a mixture of superfluid neutrons and superconducting protons. This results in the quantisation of the star's magnetic field into an array of thin fluxtubes, producing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. K. Lander

Neutron stars are strongly magnetized rotating compact objects. Therefore they also produce huge electric fields accelerating particles to ultra-relativistic energies. The simplest magnetic topology is a dipole traditionally located at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jérôme Pétri

Neutron stars radiate in a broad band spectrum from radio wavelengths up to very high energies. They have been sorted into several classes depending on their respective place in the $P-\dot{P}$ diagram and depending on spectral/temporal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Jérôme Pétri

The effects of strong magnetic fields on the inner crust of neutron stars are investigated after taking into account the anomalous magnetic moments of nucleons. Energy spectra and wave functions for protons and neutrons in a uniform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Wen , L. S. Kisslinger , Walter Greiner , G. Mao

Because of the quantum fluid properties of a neutron star core's neutrons and protons, its magnetic field is expected to be coupled strongly to its spin. This predicts a simple evolution of the surface-field of such stars as they spin down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ruderman

Neutron stars are one of the most exotic objects in the universe and a unique laboratory to study the nuclear matter above the nuclear saturation density. In this work, we study the equation of state of the nuclear matter within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-26 L. L. Lopes , D. P. Menezes

Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields known anywhere in the Universe. In this review, I intend to give a pedagogical discussion of some of the related physics. Neutron stars exist because of Pauli's exclusion principle, in two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-18 Andreas Reisenegger

Among the many different classes of stellar objects, neutron stars provide a unique environment where we can test (at the same time) our understanding of matter with extreme density, temperature, and magnetic field. In particular, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Nanda Rea

We obtain the equations that define the equilibrium of a homogeneous relativistic gas of neutrons, protons and electrons in a constant magnetic field as applied to the conditions that probably occur near the center of neutron stars. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Kahlilov , Chi Yang

Possible consequences of ferromagnetic transition in dense matter suggested recently by Kutschera and W{\'o}jcik, for the magnetic properties of neutron stars, are studied. Specific model of dense matter, in which a small admixture of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Haensel , S. Bonazzola