Pulsars: Cosmic Permanent 'Neutromagnets'?

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2011-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3434v1

ISRN Astronomy and AstrophysicsVolume 2011 (2011), Article ID 378493

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Accepted for publication

Scientific paper

10.5402/2011/378493

We argue that pulsars may be spin-polarized neutron stars, i.e. cosmic permanent magnets. This would simply explain several observational facts about pulsars, including the 'beacon effect' itself i.e. the static/stable misalignment of rotational and magnetic axes, the extreme temporal stability of the pulses and the existence of an upper limit for the magnetic field strength - coinciding with the one observed in "magnetars". Although our model admittedly is speculative, this latter fact seems to us unlikely to be pure coincidence.

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