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Persistent high-energy emission of magnetars is produced by a plasma corona around the neutron star, with total energy output of ~10^{36}erg/s. The corona forms as a result of occasional starquakes that twist the external magnetic field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Beloborodov , C. Thompson

Force-free pulsar magnetospheres develop a large scale poloidal electric current circuit that flows along open magnetic field lines from the neutron star to the termination shock. The electric current closes through the interior of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 V. Karageorgopoulos , K. N. Gourgouliatos , I. Contopoulos

We propose that the magnetosphere reconfiguration induced by magnetic twists in the closed field line region can account for the mode-switching of intermittent pulsars. We carefully investigate the properties of axisymmetric force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Lei Huang , Cong Yu , Hao Tong

We conduct force-free simulations of a single neutron star undergoing orbital motion in flat spacetime, mimicking the trajectory of the star about the center of mass on a compact binary system. Our attention is focused on the kinetic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata

The persistent thermal luminosity of magnetars and their outbursts suggest the existence of some internal heat sources located in their outer crust. The compression of matter accompanying the decay of the magnetic field may trigger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-10 Nicolas Chamel , Anthea Francesca Fantina , Lami Suleiman , Julian-Leszek Zdunik , Pawel Haensel

The origins of the various outbursts of hard X-rays from magnetars (highly magnetized neutron stars) are still unknown. We identify instabilities in relativistic magnetospheres that can explain a range of X-ray flare luminosities. Crustal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , V. Mewes , B. Ripperda , E. R. Most , L. Sironi

We investigate in details properties of stationary force-free magnetosphere of aligned rotator assuming the last closed field line lying in equatorial plane at large distances from pulsar. The pulsar equations is solved numerically using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

In this work we present a study of the low temperature magnetic phases of polycrystalline MnCr$_2$O$_4$ spinel through dc magnetization and ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy (FMR). Through these experiments we determined the main…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-03 Dina Tobia , Julián Milano , María Teresa Causa , Elin L. Winkler

We study the magnetospheric structure and the ionospheric Joule Heating of planets orbiting M-dwarf stars in the habitable zone using a set of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models. The stellar wind solution is used to drive a model for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , A. Glocer , C. Garraffo , K. Poppenhaeger , J. M. Bell , A. J. Ridley , T. I. Gombosi

We present the first 3D fully coupled magneto-thermal simulations of neutron stars (including the most realistic background structure and microphysical ingredients so far) applied to a very complex initial magnetic field topology in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Clara Dehman , Daniele Viganò , Stefano Ascenzi , Jose A. Pons , Nanda Rea

Numerical simulations have shown that the strength of planetary magnetic fields depends on the convective energy flux emerging from planetary interiors. Here we model the interior structure of gas giant planets using \texttt{MESA}, to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Konstantinos Kilmetis , Aline A. Vidotto , Andrew Allan , Daria Kubyshkina

In the quiet solar photosphere, the mixed polarity fields form a magnetic carpet, which continuously evolves due to dynamical interaction between the convective motions and magnetic field. This interplay is a viable source to heat the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 L. P. Chitta , R. Kariyappa , A. A. van Ballegooijen , E. E. DeLuca , S. K. Solanki

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

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) constitute the core structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but hot debates remain on whether the MFR forms before or during solar eruptions. Furthermore, how flare reconnection shapes the erupting MFR is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Jun Chen , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian , Xinyi Wang , Jiaying Li , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng

We apply a computationally efficient technique to validate the global structure of the pulsar magnetosphere. In this first of a series of studies, a 3D, computationally intensive, implicit Crank-Nicolson finite-difference scheme is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Sushilkumar Sreekumar , Eric M. Schlegel

We propose that the coronal magnetic field, linking concentrations on the photosphere through an interwoven web of flux, embodies a scale-free network. It arises from a self-organized critical dynamics including flux emergence, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Hughes , Maya Paczuski

The coupling of Jupiter's magnetosphere and ionosphere plays a vital role in creating its auroral emissions. The strength of these emissions is dependent on the difference in speed of the rotational flows within Jupiter's high-latitude…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. N. Yates , N. Achilleos , P. Guio

We investigate the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters starting from constant primordial fields using highly resolved ($\approx \rm 4 ~kpc$) cosmological MHD simulations. The magnetic fields in our sample exhibit amplification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Gianfranco Brunetti

We consider the force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator. Its structure is well described by a Grad-Shafranov equation for poloidal magnetic field, the so-called "pulsar equation". We solve this equation by a multigrid method with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrey Timokhin

We study the one-loop gluon polarization tensor at zero and finite temperature in the presence of a magnetic field, to extract the thermo-magnetic evolution of the strong coupling $\alpha_s$. We analyze four distinct regimes, to wit, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Alejandro Ayala , C. A. Dominguez , Saul Hernandez-Ortiz , L. A. Hernandez , M. Loewe , D. Manreza Paret , R. Zamora