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On the Nature of Magnetars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Ya. N. Istomin
Ya. N. Istomin*
Affiliation:
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Abstract

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The electromagnetic fields of magnetodipole radiation can penetrate to the conducting matter of a neutron star crust and create there electric currents and tangential magnetic fields of high magnitude. The solution obtained here has the form of surface magnetic field discontinuities propagating through the crust to the core. This model explains the phenomena of magnetars — Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars.

Type
Part 5: Magnetars, Central Compact Objects and Isolated Neutron Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 218: Young Neutrons Stars and their Environments , 2004 , pp. 265 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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