2018/04/15 by Vikram Soni, Soni, Vikram, Mitja Rosina +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.05343
openalex publication_date 2018/04/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work we find that the at the high polar magnetic fields of magnetars, B ∼ 1014-15 G, the outermost crust (ρ< 107 gm/cc) of the star can become a transverse insulator and a filamentary crystal along the field direction. Also, the transverse conductivity in the crust goes inversely as the square of polar magnetic field (as 1/B2). At these high fields the transverse crustal currents associated with the polar magnetic field can then dissipate more effectively via Ohm's law.