Atmospheres and radiating surfaces of neutron stars

AY Potekhin - Physics-Uspekhi, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The early 21st century is witnessing a breakthrough in the study of the thermal radiation of
neutron stars. Observations with modern space telescopes have provided a wealth of …

Thermal luminosities of cooling neutron stars

AY Potekhin, DA Zyuzin, DG Yakovlev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ages and thermal luminosities of neutron stars, inferred from observations, can be
interpreted with the aid of the neutron star cooling theory to gain information on the …

A variable absorption feature in the X-ray spectrum of a magnetar

A Tiengo, P Esposito, S Mereghetti, R Turolla, L Nobili… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Soft-γ-ray repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are slowly rotating,
isolated neutron stars that sporadically undergo episodes of long-term flux enhancement …

The correlation between dispersion measure and X-ray column density from radio pulsars

C He, CY Ng, VM Kaspi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsars are remarkable objects that emit across the entire electromagnetic spectrum,
providing a powerful probe of the interstellar medium. In this study, we investigate the …

Vortex creep heating in neutron stars

M Fujiwara, K Hamaguchi, N Nagata… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations of old warm neutron stars suggest the presence of a heating source in
these stars, requiring a paradigm beyond the standard neutron-star cooling theory. In this …

Thermal and non-thermal X-ray emission from the rotation-powered radio/γ-ray pulsar PSR J1740+ 1000

M Rigoselli, S Mereghetti, S Anzuinelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of new XMM-Newton observations of the middle-aged (τ c= 1.1× 105
yr) radio pulsar PSR J1740+ 1000 carried out in 2017–2018. These long pointings (∼ 530 …

Cooling theory faced with old warm neutron stars: role of non-equilibrium processes with proton and neutron gaps

K Yanagi, N Nagata… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations have found several candidates for old warm neutron stars whose
surface temperatures are above the prediction of the standard neutron star cooling scenario …

Constraining superfluidity in dense matter from the cooling of isolated neutron stars

S Beloin, S Han, AW Steiner, D Page - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
We present a quantitative analysis of superfluidity and superconductivity in dense matter
from observations of isolated neutron stars in the context of the minimal cooling model. Our …

Evaluating the evidence of multipolar surface magnetic field in PSR J0108–1431

P Arumugasamy, D Mitra - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT PSR J0108–1431 is an old pulsar where the X-ray emission is expected to have
a thermal component from the polar cap and a non-thermal component from the …

Flux-density spectral analysis for several pulsars and two newly identified gigahertz-peaked spectra pulsars

M Dembska, J Kijak, A Jessner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we present results from flux-density measurements for 21 pulsars over a wide
frequency range, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and the Effelsberg …