What Magnetar Seismology can Teach us about the Magnetic Fields

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2009-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3319v1

Astrophys.J.702:L23-L26,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/702/1/L23

The effect of magnetic fields on the frequencies of toroidal oscillations of neutron stars is derived to lowest order. Interpreting the fine structure in the QPO power spectrum of magnetars following giant flares reported by Strohmayer and Watts (2006) to be "Zeeman splitting" of degenerate toroidal modes, we estimate a crustal magnetic field of order 10^{15} Gauss or more. We suggest that residual m, -m symmetry following such splitting might allow beating of individual frequency components that is slow enough to be observed.

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