Neutron star magnetic fields and thermal X-rays

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Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aps..apr.u4003r&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2003, April 5-8, 2003 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, MEETING ID: APR03, abstract #U4.003

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The strong evolving magnetic field of a pulsar supports unique phenomena in the surrounding plasma of the neutron star (NS), on the NS's interior superconducting proton fluid, and sometimes on the nature of the stellar surface. Among these phenomena are cyclotron-resonant scattering of X-rays by electrons, huge sharp density jumps at the surface of exceptionally strongly magnetized NSs ("magnetars"), and a strong coupling between a NS's spin and its surface magnetic field. These can have concequences for ongoing satellite observations of thermal X-rays from hot NS surfaces and allow tests of proposed electron-positron production within the magnetospheres of younger NSs, spin-down of old magnetars, and the genesis of magnetic fields in spun-up millisecond spin period pulsars.

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