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Cooling of magnetars with internal layer heating
We model thermal evolution of magnetars with a phenomenological heat source in a spherical internal layer and compare the results with observations of persistent thermal radiation from magnetars. We show that...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cooling of magnetars with internal layer heating
We model thermal evolution of magnetars with a phenomenological heat source in a spherical internal layer and compare the results with observations of persistent thermal radiation from magnetars. We show that ...
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Article
Does mass accretion lead to field decay in neutron stars?
WHETHER or not neutron-star magnetic fields decay is a matter of current debate. The recent observation1,2 of cyclotron lines from γ-ray-burst sources, thought to be relatively old neutron stars, indicates that ...
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Quasi-periodic oscillations in bright galactic-bulge X-ray sources
Quasi-periodic oscillations with frequencies in the range 5–50 Hz have recently been discovered in X-rays from two bright galactic-bulge sources and ScoX-1. We propose that these sources are weakly magnetic ne...
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Spin-down episode of the X-ray pulsar Vela X-1
Since the discovery1 of a 283-s pulsation of an X-ray binary Vela X-1, several observations2–8 between 1975 and 1978 have revealed that its pulse period P was decreasing with an average value of Ṗ/P ≍ −1.5 × 10−4
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A new mode of X-ray bursts from MXB1730–335
We report here on the unusual behaviour of MXB1730–335, the rapid burster1 as observed by the X-ray astronomy satellite Hakucho between 8 and 22 August 19792. MXB1730–335 is a unique burst source which generates ...