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Long-term neutrino-radiation resistive-magnetohydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for a system composed of a massive neutron star and a torus formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. The simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

The magnetospheres around neutron stars should be very particular because of their strong magnetic field and rapid rotation. A study of the pulsar magnetospheres is of a crucial importance since it is the key issue to understand how energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Vadim Urpin

We calculate the coupled thermal evolution and magnetic field decay in relativistic model neutron stars threaded by superstrong magnetic fields (B > 10^{15} G). Our main goal is to evaluate how such ``magnetars'' evolve with time and how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Arras , A. Cumming , C. Thompson

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

Hall drift, i. e., transport of magnetic flux by the moving electrons giving rise to the electrical current, may be the dominant effect causing the evolution of the magnetic field in the solid crust of neutron stars. It is a nonlinear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andreas Reisenegger , Rafael Benguria , Joaquin P. Prieto , Pablo A. Araya , Dong Lai

We introduce a new Rigid-Field Hydrodynamics approach to modeling the magnetospheres of massive stars in the limit of very-strong magnetic fields. Treating the field lines as effectively rigid, we develop hydrodynamical equations describing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. H. D. Townsend , S. P. Owocki , A. ud-Doula

We study the non--linear evolution of magnetic fields in neutron star crusts with special attention to the influence of the Hall drift. Our goal is to understand the conditions for fast dissipation due to the Hall term in the induction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Pons , U. Geppert

We investigate the effects of a magnetic field on the thermodynamics of a neutron system at finite density and temperature. Our main motivation is to deepen the understanding of the physics of a class of neutron stars known as magnetars,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 E. J. Ferrer , A. Hackebill

Neutron stars, and magnetars in particular, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. The origin of these strong fields is a matter of controversy. In this preliminary work, via numerical simulations, we study, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-30 K. Franceschetti , L. Del Zanna

We formulate hydrodynamic equations for nonsuperfluid multicomponent magnetized charged relativistic mixtures, taking into account chemical reactions as well as viscosity, diffusion, thermodiffusion, and thermal conductivity effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-18 Vasiliy A. Dommes , Mikhail E. Gusakov , Peter S. Shternin

Magnetic field evolution in neutron star cores is not fully understood. We describe the field evolution both for one barotropic fluid as well as two collisionally coupled barotropic fluids with different density profiles using the anelastic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Andrei Igoshev , Nicolás A. Moraga , Andreas Reisenegger , Calum S. Skene , Rainer Hollerbach

Neutron stars are natural physical laboratories allowing us to study a plethora of phenomena in extreme conditions. In particular, these compact objects can have very strong magnetic fields with non-trivial origin and evolution. In many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-14 Andrei P. Igoshev , Sergei B. Popov , Rainer Hollerbach

The impact of strong magnetic fields B>10e13 G on the thermal evolution of neutron stars is investigated, including crustal heating by magnetic field decay. For this purpose, we perform 2D cooling simulations with anisotropic thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Deborah N. Aguilera , José A. Pons , Juan A. Miralles

We study the mutual influence of thermal and magnetic evolution in a neutron star's crust in axial symmetry. Taking into account realistic microphysical inputs, we find the heat released by Joule effect consistent with the circulation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 J. A. Pons , J. A. Miralles , U. Geppert

We study the stability of neutron stars with toroidal magnetic fields by magnetohydrodynamic simulation in full general relativity under assumption of axial symmetry. Nonrotating and rigidly rotating neutron stars are prepared for a variety…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata , Shijun Yoshida

Large-scale dipolar surface magnetic fields have been detected in a fraction of OB stars, however only few stellar evolution models of massive stars have considered the impact of these fossil fields. We are performing 1D hydrodynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Z. Keszthelyi , G. A. Wade , V. Petit

Long-term ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive neutron star formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. Neutrino radiation transport effects are taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We propose a general method to self-consistently study the quasistationary evolution of the magnetic field in the cores of neutron stars. The traditional approach to this problem is critically revised. Our results are illustrated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 M. E. Gusakov , E. M. Kantor , D. D. Ofengeim

The evolution of the magnetic field in neutron star crusts because of the Hall effect has received significant attention over the last two decades, which is strongly justified because of the dominance of this effect in highly magnetised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We investigate hydromagnetic turbulence of primordial magnetic fields using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding universe. We present the basic, covariant MHD equations, find solutions for MHD waves in the early universe, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Axel Brandenburg , Kari Enqvist , Poul Olesen