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In association with the Goldreich-Julian's magnetic braking mechanism to explain the luminosity of radio pulsars as a result of their spin-down, it is of some interest to explore how much of magnetic flux can actually penetrate the surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongsu Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Chul H. Lee , Hyun Kyu Lee

Over the past decade, the numerical modeling of the magnetic field evolution in astrophysical scenarios has become an increasingly important field. In the crystallized crust of neutron stars the evolution of the magnetic field is governed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-24 Daniele Viganò , Jose A. Pons , Juan A. Miralles

Possible origins of the magnetic fields of neutron stars include inheritance from the main sequence progenitor and dynamo action at some stage of evolution of progenitor. Inheritance is not sufficient to explain the fields of magnetars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 H. C. Spruit

Aims. Many recent observations of pulsars and magnetars can be interpreted in terms of neutron stars (NS) with multipole electromagnetic fields. As a first approximation, we investigate the multipole magnetic and electric fields in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 S. Bonazzola , F. Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

As a follow-up study of our previous work, numerical-relativity simulations for seconds-long black hole-neutron star mergers are performed for a variety of setups. Irrespective of the initial and symmetry conditions, we find qualitatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We study the evolution of the field on the surface of proto-neutron stars in the immediate aftermath of stellar core collapse by analyzing the results of self-consistent, axisymmetric simulations of the cores of rapidly rotating high-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Ángel Aloy

We study in the framework of relativistic quantum mechanics the evolution of a system of two Dirac neutrinos that mix with each other and have non-vanishing magnetic moments. The dynamics of this system in an external magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Maxim Dvornikov , Jukka Maalampi

NASA's NICER telescope has recently provided evidence for non-dipolar magnetic field structures in rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. These stars are assumed to have gone through a prolonged accretion spin-up phase, begging the question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Pushpita Das , Oliver Porth , Anna Watts

Accreting neutron stars differ from black holes by the presence of the star's own magnetic field, whose interaction with the accretion flow is a central component in understanding these systems' disk structure, outflows, jets, and spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Kyle Parfrey , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We explore the structure of a dipole-type vacuum field of a slowly rotating magnetic star near the horizon of a supermassive black hole, where the structure of field lines becomes highly distorted by effects of strong gravity. Such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-13 Ondřej Kopáček , T. Tahamtan , Vladimír Karas

The present study explores the thermal evolution and emission properties of neutron stars within the framework of modified $f(R, T)$ gravity by solving the coupled energy-balance and heat-transport equations. We compute stellar mass and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Charul Rathod , M. Mishra , Prasanta Kumar Das , Captain R. Singh

The presence of quark-hadron phase transitions in neutron stars can be related to several interesting phenomena. In particular, previous calculations have shown that fast rotating neutron stars, when subjected to a quark-hadron phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-23 B. Franzon , R. O. Gomes , S. Schramm

We assess the modification of angular momentum transport in various configurations of star-disk accreting systems based on numerical simulations with different parameters. We quantify the torques exerted on a star by the various components…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 M. Čemeljić , A. S. Brun

Enormous progress has been made on observing stellar magnetism in stars from the main sequence through to compact objects. Recent data have thrown into sharper relief the vexed question of the origin of stellar magnetic fields, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Lilia Ferrario , Andrew Melatos , Jonathan Zrake

We study neutron stars in a varying speed of light (VSL) theory of gravity in which the local speed of light depends upon the value of a scalar field $\phi$. We find that the masses and radii of the stars are strongly dependent on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. W. Whinnett

We investigate the evolution of a thin viscous disc surrounding magnetic star, including the spindown of the star by the magnetic torques it exerts on the disc. The transition from an accreting to a non-accreting state, and the change of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Caroline D'Angelo , Henk Spruit

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

We construct rapidly rotating neutron star models in scalar-tensor theories with a massive scalar field. The fact that the scalar field has nonzero mass leads to very interesting results since the allowed range of values of the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this review article, we present the main results from our most recent research concerning the oscillations of fast rotating neutron stars. We derive a set of time evolution equations for the investigation of non-axisymmetric oscillations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Christian J. Krüger , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Praveen Manoharan , Sebastian H. Völkel

We analyze the effect of the quadrupole component in the mass distribution of a rapidly rotating neutron star on energy release in the boundary layer on the surface of the accreting star and in the accretion disk in the cases where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. R. Sibgatullin , R. A. Sunyaev