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We consider the amplification and transport of a magnetic field in the collapsed core of a massive star, including both the region between the neutrinosphere and the shock, and the central, opaque core. An analytical argument explains why…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christopher Thompson , Norman Murray

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

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

We report on a study of the evolution of magnetic fields of neutron stars, driven by the expulsion of magnetic flux out of the proton superconducting core of the star. The rate of expulsion, or equivalently the velocity of outward motion of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Jahan-Miri

In [Gusakov et al.\ PRD, 96, 103012, (2017)], we proposed a self-consistent method to study the quasistationary evolution of the magnetic field in neutron-star cores. Here we apply it to calculate the instantaneous particle velocities and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-13 D. D. Ofengeim , M. E. Gusakov

We point out that the Meissner effect, the process by which a superconductor expels magnetic field from its interior, represents an unsolved puzzle within the London-BCS theoretical framework used to describe the physics of conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-18 J. E. Hirsch

In the presence of strong magnetic field reported to have been observed on the surface of some neutron stars and on what are called Magnetars, a host of physical phenomenon from the birth of a neutron star to free streaming neutrino cooling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashok Goyal

The evolutionary scenario of the neutron star magnetic field is examined assuming a spindown-induced expulsion of magnetic flux originally confined to the core, in which case the expelled flux undergoes ohmic decay. The nature of field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sushan Konar , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We consider generation and evolution of small-scale magnetic fields in neutron stars. These fields can be generated by small-scale turbulent dynamo action soon after the collapse when the proto-neutron star is subject to convective and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Urpin , J. Gil

We present magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations of the late post-supernova hypercritical accretion to understand its effect on the magnetic field of the new-born neutron star. We consider as an example the case of a magnetic field loop…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Cristian G. Bernal , Dany Page , William H. Lee

Young neutron stars (NSs) have magnetic fields $B$ in the range $10^{12}-10^{15}$ G, believed to be generated by dynamo action at birth. We argue that such a dynamo is actually too inefficient to explain the strongest of these fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 S. K. Lander

Recently, several accreting neutron stars (NSs) in X-ray binary systems inside supernova remnants have been discovered. They represent a puzzle for the standard magneto-rotational evolution of NSs, as their ages ($\lesssim 10^5$ years) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 A. D. Khokhriakova , S. B. Popov

We investigate the effects of strong magnetic fields upon the gross properties of neutron and protoneutron stars. In our calculations, the neutron star matter was approximated by the pure neutron matter. Using the lowest order constrained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gholam Hossein Bordbar , Zeinab Rezaei

It is commonly accepted that a neutron star is produced, when a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel and ends its life in a core-collapse supernova explosion. This scenario is confirmed by the detection of pulsars, which are believed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-17 Shuang-Nan Zhang , Yi Xie

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

In the seconds after core collapse and explosion, a thermal neutrino-driven wind emerges from the cooling, deleptonizing newly-born neutron star. If the neutron star has a large-scale magnetar-strength surface magnetic field and millisecond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Todd A. Thompson

The behaviour of the magnetic field inside the superconducting quark matter core of a neutron star is investigated in the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau theory. We take into account the simultaneous coupling of the diquark condensate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 D. M. Sedrakian , D. Blaschke , K. M. Shahabasyan , D. N. Voskresensky

The flow of a matter, accreting onto a magnetized neutron star, is accompanied by an electric current. The closing of the electric current occurs in the crust of a neutron stars in the polar region across the magnetic field. But the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-01 Ya. N. Istomin , I. A. Semerikov

Young neutron stars born with magnetic fields $B\gtrsim 10^{16}$ G become hyperactive as the field inside the star evolves through ambipolar diffusion on a timescale $\sim 10^9$ s. We simulate this process numerically and find that it can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Ashley Bransgrove , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Yuri Levin

There exists both theoretical and observational evidence that the magnetic field decay in neutron stars may proceed in a pronounced non--linear way during a certain episode of the neutron star's life. In the presence of a strong magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Geppert , M. Rheinhardt