Pulsar Physics without Magnetars

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2006-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612785v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Proceedings of the 363. WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and Pulsars (Posters and contributed talks) Physikzentrum Bad Hon

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Almost 40 years after the discovery of pulsars -- and despite a plethora of secured data on them -- pulsar theory is still beset by a number of fundamental inconsistencies. In this short contribution, I will argue that (i) magnetars do not exist, (ii) (ordinary) pulsars turnoff (or 'die') when their wind pressure falls short of keeping the CSM at a safe distance, exceeding 10^15 cm, whereupon they can mimic magnetars, (iii) msec pulsars are born fast (in core-collapse SNe), and are much older inside globular clusters than outside of them, (iv) neutron-star corotating magnetospheres can oscillate almost in resonance with their spin frequency, giving rise to pulse drifting, and to QPOs of accreting binary X-ray sources, and (v) the dying pulsars are the dominant sources of the cosmic rays, and of the GRBs.

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