Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Feb 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...386..215c&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 386, Feb. 10, 1992, p. 215-221. Research supported by University of Califor
Statistics
Computation
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Dynamic Models, Gamma Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Computational Astrophysics, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Models
Scientific paper
Attention is given to a dynamical model of the magnetization of a neutron star. The model exhibits three distinct behaviors, as characterized in the 2D parameter space of the two relevant parameters. In one region of the parameter space, the magnetization, and correspondingly the magnetic field, behaves erratically and nonperiodically, occasionally producing large pulses of the directional electric and magnetic field. It is suggested that this field is associated with 'bursters', very energetic gamma-rich pulses of the order of 1-s duration, and believed to emanate from solo neutron stars. A second region of parameter space shows the magnetization precessing at a constant period around the spin or conserved angular momentum direction. The third region is a 'dead' region, where the magnetization is aligned with the spin axis, and the star is nonradiating. The model suggests a life history of a neutron star in which the star typically evolves initially from a burster, later becoming a pulsar, and ending as a dead star.
Cummings Frederick W.
Dixon David D.
Kaus P. E.
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