Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-08-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 4 PostScript figures (uses A&A style)
Scientific paper
10.1080/10556790008238593
In this paper we semianalyticaly evaluate influence of the exponential decay of magnetic field on the fate of isolated neutron stars. The fact of ROSAT observations of several X-ray sources, which can be accreting old isolated neutron stars gives us an opportunity to put some limits on the parameters of the exponential decay. We argue, that, if most part of neutron stars have approximately the same decay and initial parameters, then the combinations of the bottom magnetic momentum, $\mu_b$, in the range $\sim 10^{28}-10^{29.5} {\rm G} {\rm cm}^3$ and characteristic time scale, $t_d$, in the range $\sim 10^7-10^8 {\rm yrs}$ for standard initial magnetic momentum, $\mu_0=10^{30} {\rm G} {\rm cm}^3$, can be excluded, because for that sets of parameters neutron stars never come to the stage when accretion of the interstellar medium on their surfaces is possible even for low velocity of neutron stars and relatively high density of the interstellar medium. The region of excluded parameters increases with $\mu_0$ decreasing.
Popov Sergei B.
Prokhorov Mikhail E.
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