Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994cuny.reptq....a&link_type=abstract
Annual Status Report No. 2, 1 Apr. 1993 - 31 Mar. 1994 Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Depts. of Astronomy and Physics.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Baryons, Cooling, Pulsars, Stellar Models, Surface Temperature, Thermal Radiation, X Ray Astronomy, Astrophysics, Boundary Conditions, Magnetic Fields, Photons, Rosat Mission
Scientific paper
The unambiguous detection of thermal radiation from the surface of a cooling neutron star was one of the most anxiously awaited results in neutron star physics. This particular Holy Grail was found by Halpern and Holt, who used ROSAT to detect pulsed X-rays from the gamma-ray source Geminga and demonstrate that it was a neutron star, probably a radio pulsar beamed away from us. At an age of approximately 3.4 x 105 years, Geminga is in the photon cooling era. Its surface temperature of 5.2 x 105 K can be explained within the contexts of both the slow and fast cooling scenarios. In the slow cooling scenario, the surface temperature is too high unless the specific heat of the interior is reduced by extensive baryon pairing. In the fast cooling scenario, the surface temperature will be much too low unless the fast neutrino cooling is shut off by baryon pairing. Two other pulsars, PSR 0656+14 and PSR 1055-52, have also been detected in thermal X-rays by ROSAT. They are also in the photon cooling era. All of this research's neutron star cooling models to date have used the unmagnetized effective temperature-interior temperature relation for the outer boundary condition. Models are being improved by using published magnetic envelope calculations and assumed geometried for the surface magnetic field to determine local interior temperature-emitted flux relations for the surface of the star.
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