Pulsars and Magnetars: facts and possible fiction

Seminar
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Speaker
Nick Kylafis (Crete)
Date
20/03/2023 - 12:00 - 10:30Add to Calendar 2023-03-20 10:30:00 2023-03-20 12:00:00 Pulsars and Magnetars: facts and possible fiction Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) are relatively young, isolated neutron stars, that are thought to have super-strong ($10^{14} – 10^{15}$ G) dipole magnetic fields and even larger internal toroidal magnetic fields.  Thus, they were given the name Magnetars.  I will examine if this is a fact or possible fiction.  I will present an alternative picture and I will discuss what it will take to decide between the two pictures. References: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013ApJ...764...49T/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014A%26A...562A..62K/abstract Physics (#202), room 301 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Physics (#202), room 301
Abstract

Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) are relatively young, isolated neutron stars, that are thought to have super-strong ($10^{14} – 10^{15}$ G) dipole magnetic fields and even larger internal toroidal magnetic fields.  Thus, they were given the name Magnetars.  I will examine if this is a fact or possible fiction.  I will present an alternative picture and I will discuss what it will take to decide between the two pictures.

References:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013ApJ...764...49T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014A%26A...562A..62K/abstract

Last Updated Date : 11/03/2023