Evidence for Heating of Neutron Stars by Magnetic Field Decay

Thumbnail Image

Date

Authors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Abstract

Description

We show the existence of a strong trend between neutron star surface temperature and the dipolar component of the magnetic field extending through three orders of field magnitude, a range that includes magnetars, radio-quiet isolated neutron stars, and many ordinary radio pulsars. We suggest that this trend can be explained by the decay of currents in the crust over a time scale of few Myr. We estimate the minimum temperature that a NS with a given magnetic field can reach in this interpretation.
4 pages, 1 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

Keywords

Astrophysics

Citation

URI

http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188775

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607583
 http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607583
 Phys.Rev.Lett.98:071101,2007
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.071101

Collections

arXiv