2003/03/25 by D. A. Lloyd, Lloyd, D. A.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0303561
17 pages, 14 figures; submitted to MNRAS
arxiv created 2003/03/25 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Thermal surface radiation has been detected with X-ray instruments for several neutron stars with high spectral, spatial and timing resolution. These observations allow for direct study of fundamental properties of the source, but require model atmospheres and spectra for careful interpretation. We describe a robust and extensible implementation of complete linearization for computing the spectra of isolated cooling neutron stars for a broad range of temperature and magnetic field. Self-consistent spectra are derived for arbitrary magnetic field geometries at B ≤ 1014 G.