Thermal emission from Isolated Neutron Stars and their surface magnetic field: going quadrupolar?

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2005-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501094v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 1 TeX file, 6 postscript figures; macro: elsart.cls. Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research. Manuscri

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.asr.2004.12.070

In the last few years considerable observational resources have been devoted to study the thermal emission from isolated neutron stars. Detailed XMM and Chandra observations revealed a number of features in the X-ray pulse profile, like asymmetry, energy dependence, and possible evolution of the pulse profile over a time scale of months or years. Here we show that these characteristics may be explained by a patchy surface temperature distribution, which is expected if the magnetic field has a complex structure in which higher order multipoles contribute together with the dipole. We reconsider these effects from a theoretical point of view, and discuss their implications to the observational properties of thermally emitting neutron stars.

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