Magnetic Lensing near Ultramagnetized Neutron Stars

Details Magnetic Lensing near Ultramagnetized Neutron Stars Magnetic Lensing near Ultramagnetized Neutron Stars

1999-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901376v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in MNRAS, 12 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02509.x

Extremely strong magnetic fields change the vacuum index of refraction. This induces a lensing effect that is not unlike the lensing phenomenon in strong gravitational fields. The main difference between the two is the polarization dependency of the magnetic lensing, a behaviour that induces a handful of interesting effects. The main prediction is that the thermal emission of neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields is polarized - up to a few percent for the largest fields known. This potentially allows a direct method for measuring their magnetic fields.

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