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We investigate the magneto--elastic equilibrium of a neutron star crust and magnetic energy stored by the elastic force. The solenoidal motion driven by the Lorentz force can be controlled by the magnetic elastic force, so that conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Yasufumi Kojima , Shota Kisaka , Kotaro Fujisawa

The emission of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGRs) is believed to be powered by the dissipation of their strong magnetic fields, which coined the name `magnetar'. By combining timing and energy observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Guojun Qiao , Lunhua Shang , Renxin Xu , Kejia Lee , Yongquan Xue , Qijun Zhi , Jiguang Lu , Juntao Bai

Bearing in mind the application to the outer crust of the neutron stars (NSs), we investigate the magnetic field decay by means of the fully relativistic Particle-In-Cell simulations. Numerical computations are carried out in 2-dimensions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Kei Kotake , Nobutoshi Yasutake

We study the efficiency of Joule heating in the crustal layers of young neutron stars. It is shown that dissipation of the magnetic field is highly inhomogeneous in the crust with much faster dissipation in relatively low density layers. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Urpin , D. Konenkov

We argue that the radiative zone above the iron core in pre-collapse cores of massive stars can store strong magnetic fields. To reach this conclusion we use the stellar evolutionary code MESA to simulate the evolution of two stellar models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Inbal Peres , Efrat Sabach , Noam Soker

Magnetic fields play a role in almost all stages of stellar evolution. Most low-mass stars, including the Sun, show surface fields that are generated by dynamo processes in their convective envelopes. Intermediate-mass stars do not have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 D. Stello , M. Cantiello , J. Fuller , D. Huber , R. A. Garcia , T. R. Bedding , L. Bildsten , V. Silva Aguirre

The chiral magnetic effect (CME), arising from the chiral anomaly and enabling a mutual conversion between magnetic topology and fermionic chirality, is a key mechanism in magnetar field evolution. Previous work by Dehman & Pons (2025)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Clara Dehman

In early-type stars a fossil magnetic field may be generated during the star formation process or be the result of a stellar merger event. Surface magnetic fields are thought to be erased by (sub)surface convection layers, which typically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Adam S. Jermyn , Matteo Cantiello

[abbreviated] Long-lived, large-scale magnetic field configurations exist in upper main sequence, white dwarf, and neutron stars. Externally, these fields have a strong dipolar component, while their internal structure and evolution are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Reisenegger

Recent observations of the central compact object in the Kesteven 79 supernova remnant show that this neutron star (NS) has a weak dipole magnetic field (a few x 10^{10} G) but an anomalously large (~ 64%) pulse fraction in its surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Natalia Shabaltas , Dong Lai

A convective dynamo operating during the crystallization of white dwarfs is one of the promising channels to produce their observed strong magnetic fields. Although the magnitude of the fields generated by crystallization dynamos is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Daniel Blatman , Sivan Ginzburg

We review here some magnetic phenomena in astrophysical particle accelerators associated with collisionless shocks in supernova remnants, radio galaxies and clusters of galaxies. A specific feature is that the accelerated particles can play…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-09 Andrei M. Bykov , Donald C. Ellison , Matthieu Renaud

A pair of non-thermal radio bubbles recently discovered in the inner few hundred parsecs of the Galactic center bears a close spatial association with elongated, thermal X-ray features called the X-ray chimneys. While their morphology,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Mengfei Zhang , Zhiyuan Li , Mark R. Morris

Neutron stars exhibit magnetic fields and densities far beyond those achievable in terrestrial laboratories, offering a natural probe of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Using observationally anchored mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Abriana Lyda , Prajwal MohanMurthy

Most young neutron stars belonging to the class of Central Compact Objects in supernova remnants (CCOs) do not have known periodicities. We investigated seven such CCOs to understand the common reasons for the absence of detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Qi Wu , Adriana M. Pires , Axel Schwope , Guang-Cheng Xiao , Shu-Ping Yan , Li Ji

We aim to explore whether strong magnetic fields can be effectively generated in low-mass dwarf galaxies and, if so, whether such fields can be affected by galactic outflows and spread out into the intergalactic medium (IGM). We performed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Krzysztof T. Chyzy , Robert T. Drzazga , Rainer Beck , Marek Urbanik , Volker Heesen , Dominik J. Bomans

We investigate the evolution of the chiral magnetic instability in a protoneutron star and compute the resulting magnetic power and helicity spectra. The instability may act during the early cooling phase of the hot protoneutron star after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-18 Günter Sigl , Natacha Leite

The observation of several neutron stars in the center of supernova remnants and with significantly lower values of the dipolar magnetic field than the average radio-pulsar population has motivated a lively debate about their formation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José A. Pons , José A. Font

In this work, we compute the structure and composition of the inner crust of a neutron star in the presence of a strong magnetic field, such as it can be found in magnetars. To determine the geometry and characteristics of the crust…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-01 Luigi Scurto , Helena Pais , Francesca Gulminelli

Multiscale studies of the morphology and strength of the magnetic field are crucial to properly unveil its role and relative importance in high-mass star and cluster formation. G31.41+0.31 (G31) is a hub-filament system that hosts a…