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We study the cooling evolution of neutron stars with strong poloidal magnetic fields (with strength not far from observed values) using the full general relativity 2-dimensional \textit{Astreus} code, which solves consistently Einstein's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Rodrigo Negreiros , Jeffrey Peterson , Veronica Dexheimer

Using a numerical simulation, we study the effects of ambipolar diffusion and ohmic diffusion on the magnetic field evolution in the interior of an isolated neutron star. We are interested in the behavior of the magnetic field on a long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jaime Hoyos , Andreas Reisenegger , Juan A. Valdivia

We study $m=1$ oscillations and instabilities of magnetised neutron stars, by numerical time-evolution of linear perturbations of the system. The background stars are stationary equilibrium configurations with purely toroidal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. K. Lander , D. I. Jones

The magnetic field is believed to play an important role in at least some core-collapse supernovae if its magnitude reaches $10^{15}\,\rm{G}$, which is a typical value for a magnetar. In the presence of fast rotation, such a strong magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-17 M. Bugli , J. Guilet , M. Obergaulinger , P. Cerdá-Durán , M. Á. Aloy

Models of rotating relativistic stars with a toroidal magnetic field have been computed for a sample of eight equations of state of cold dense matter. Non-rotating models admit important levels of magnetization and quadrupole distortion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Joachim Frieben , Luciano Rezzolla

We obtained the magnetic field configurations, including both poloidal and toroidal components, throughout the interior and exterior of magnetars using a realistic equation of state. We divided the magnetized star into the hydromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-01 Kotaro Fujisawa , Shota Kisaka

Neutron stars are usually modelled as spherical, rotating perfect conductors with a predominant intrinsic dipolar magnetic field anchored to their stellar crust. Due to their compactness, General Relativity corrections must be accounted for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 R. Torres , T. Grismayer , F. Cruz , L. O. Silva

We present a self-consistent model for the study of the structure of a neutron star in strong magnetic fields. Starting from a microscopic Lagrangian, this model includes the effect of the magnetic field on the equation of state, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Debarati Chatterjee , Thomas Elghozi , Jerome Novak , Micaela Oertel

Equilibrium configurations of the internal magnetic field of a pulsar play a key role in modeling astrophysical phenomena, from glitches to gravitational wave emission. In this paper we present a numerical scheme for solving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Ankan Sur , Brynmor Haskell

Accretion disks are ubiquitous in the universe and it is generally accepted that magnetic fields play a pivotal role in accretion-disk physics. The spin history of millisecond pulsars, which are usually classified as magnetized neutron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-16 Luca Naso , John Miller , Wlodek Kluzniak

We study the cosmic evolution of the magnetic fields of a large sample of spiral galaxies in a cosmologically representative volume by employing a semi-analytic galaxy formation model and numerical dynamo solver in tandem. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , Carlton M. Baugh , A. Russ Taylor

We study the problem of neutron star composition in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The effects of the anomalous magnetic moments of both nucleons and electrons are investigated in relativistic mean field calculations for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Mao , V. N. Kondratyev , A. Iwamoto , Z. Li , X. Wu , W. Greiner , I. N. Mikhailov

In this work we review the formalism normally used in the literature about the effects of density-dependent magnetic fields on the properties of neutron and quark stars, expose some ambiguities that arise and propose a way to solve the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Luiz L. Lopes , Debora P. Menezes

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

Magnetars are neutron stars endowed with surface magnetic fields of the order of $10^{14}-10^{15}$~G, and with presumably much stronger fields in their interior. As a result of Landau quantization of electron motion, the neutron-drip…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-21 N. Chamel , Y. D. Mutafchieva , Zh. K. Stoyanov , L. M. Mihailov , R. L. Pavlov

Following the general formalism presented by Rezzolla, Ahmedov and Miller (MNRAS, 322, 723 2001), we here derive analytic solutions of the electromagnetic fields equations in the internal and external background spacetime of a slowly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Rezzolla , B. J. Ahmedov , J. C. Miller

The magnetar magnetosphere is gradually twisted by shearing from footpoint motion, and stored magnetic energy also increases at the same time. When a state exceeds a threshold, flares/outbursts manifest themselves as a result of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Yasufumi Kojima

Gravitational-wave diagnostics are developed for discriminating between varieties of mixed poloidal-toroidal magnetic fields in neutron stars, with particular emphasis on differentially rotating protoneutron stars. It is shown that tilted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Paul D. Lasky , Andrew Melatos

Motivated by the report by Cottam et al. (2002) of iron resonance scattering lines in the spectra of thermonuclear bursts from EXO 0748-676, we have investigated the information about neutron star structure and the geometry of the emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sudip Bhattacharyya , M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb

Even though the crystallize nature of the neutron star crust plays a pivotal role in describing various fascinating astrophysical observations, its microscopic structure is not fully understood in the presence of a colossal magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-23 Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , M. K. Sharma , S. K. Patra