Pulsar Physics without Magnetars
| dc.creator | Kundt, W. | |
| dc.date | 2006-12-29 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:37:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:37:36Z | |
| dc.description | Almost 40 years after the discovery of pulsars -- and despite a plethora of secured data on them -- pulsar theory is still beset by a number of fundamental inconsistencies. In this short contribution, I will argue that (i) magnetars do not exist, (ii) (ordinary) pulsars turnoff (or 'die') when their wind pressure falls short of keeping the CSM at a safe distance, exceeding 10^15 cm, whereupon they can mimic magnetars, (iii) msec pulsars are born fast (in core-collapse SNe), and are much older inside globular clusters than outside of them, (iv) neutron-star corotating magnetospheres can oscillate almost in resonance with their spin frequency, giving rise to pulse drifting, and to QPOs of accreting binary X-ray sources, and (v) the dying pulsars are the dominant sources of the cosmic rays, and of the GRBs. | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the 363. WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and Pulsars (Posters and contributed talks) Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, May.14-19, 2006, eds. W.Becker, H.H.Huang, MPE Report 291, pp.197-200 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612785 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612785 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120829 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Pulsar Physics without Magnetars | |
| dc.type | text |