Internal heating of old neutron stars: contrasting different mechanisms

2010/05/31 by D. Gonzalez, Denis Gonzalez, Andreas Reisenegger · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Internal heating #Millisecond pulsar #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015084

7 pages, 5 figures, accepted version to be published in A&A

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Abstract

Context. The standard cooling models of neutron stars predict temperatures of T < 104 K for ages t > 107 yr. However, the likely thermal emission detected from the millisecond pulsar J0437-4715, of spin-down age ts ~ 7 × 109 yr, implies a temperature T ~ 105 K. Thus, a heating mechanism needs to be added to the cooling models in order to obtain agreement between theory and observation.

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