Model Atmospheres for Low Field Neutron Stars

Details Model Atmospheres for Low Field Neutron Stars Model Atmospheres for Low Field Neutron Stars

1995-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9510094v2

Astrophys.J. 461 (1996) 327

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, text errors in several formulae corrected for publication, 5 eps figures unchanged; to appear in ApJ, April 10, 1996

Scientific paper

10.1086/177059

We compute model atmospheres and emergent spectra for low field (B<10^10 G) neutron stars, using new opacity and equation of state data from the OPAL project. These computations, incorporating improved treatments of flux transport and convective stability, provide spectra for hydrogen, solar abundance and iron atmospheres. We compare our results to high field magnetic atmospheres, available only for hydrogen. An application to apparently thermal flux from the low field millisecond pulsar PSR J0437--4715 shows that H atmospheres fit substantially better than Fe models. We comment on extension to high fields and the implication of these results for neutron star luminosities and radii.

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