Critical luminosity of a magnetic neutron star

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Sep 1984

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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 138, no. 2, Sept. 1984, p. 356-358.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Absorption Spectra, Line Spectra, Magnetic Stars, Neutron Stars, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Luminosity, Cyclotron Resonance, Dwarf Stars, Eddington Approximation, Stellar Mass Accretion

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Cyclotron absorption can drastically increase the force exerted by radiation on electrons in a magnetic field. It has been argued (Mitrofanov and Pavlov, 1982) that this effect lowers the critical luminosity of magnetic neutron stars and degenerate dwarfs by several orders of magnitude. The authors have found, however, that the formation of an absorption line in the spectrum of a magnetic neutron star largely reduces the importance of the cyclotron resonance, and consequently leads to critical luminosities not much below the Eddington limit.

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