1998/08/12 by Jeremy S. Heyl, Lars Hernquist · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04016.x
published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 292 · 20 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS
arxiv created 1998/08/12 · openalex publication_date 2001/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recently launched X-ray telescopes have discovered several candidate isolated neutron stars. The thermal radiation from these objects may potentially constrain our understanding of nuclear physics in a realm inaccessible to terrestrial experiments. To translate the observed fluxes from neutron stars into constraints, one needs precise calculations of the heat transfer through the thin insulating envelopes of neutron stars. We describe models of the thermal structure of the envelopes of neutron stars with magnetic fields up to 1014 G. Unlike earlier work, we infer the properties of envelope models in two dimensions and precisely account for the quantization of the electron phase-space. Both dipole and uniformly magnetized envelopes are considered.