Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior [electronic resource] /
Zane, Silvia.editor.
Turolla, Roberto.editor.
Page, Dany.editor.
This book collects the contributions presented at the conference Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior, held in London in April 2006. Forty years after the discovery of radio pulsars it presents an up-to-date description of the new vision of isolated neutron stars that has emerged in recent years with the advance of multi-wavelength observations. The great variety of isolated neutron stars, from pulsars to magnetars, some of them discovered very recently and many of them not detectable in radio wavelengths, is amply covered by descriptions of recent observational results and presentations of the latest theoretical interpretation of these data.
Reprinted from Astrophysics and space science, vol. 308, nos. 1-4, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references.
Recent progress on anomalous X-ray pulsars -- XMM–Newton observations of soft gamma-ray repeaters -- MMIV: de SGR 1806–20 Anno Mirabili -- Long term spectral variability in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14 -- The radio nebula produced by the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 -- The continuum and line spectra of SGR 1806-20 bursts -- Unveiling soft gamma-ray repeaters with INTEGRAL -- Our distorted view of magnetars: application of the resonant cyclotron scattering model -- Spitzer space telescope observations of SGR and AXP environments -- Anomalous X-ray pulsars: persistent states with fallback disks -- The anatomy of a magnetar: XMM monitoring of the transient anomalous X-ray pulsar XTE J1810–197 -- PSR J1119–6127 and the X-ray emission from high magnetic field radio pulsars -- Chandra smells a RRAT -- QED can explain the non-thermal emission from SGRs and AXPs: variability -- Resonant Compton upscattering in anomalous X-ray pulsars -- Newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of magnetar candidates -- Astrophysical input for gravitational wave searches -- Dim isolated neutron stars, cooling and energy dissipation -- Accretion by isolated neutron stars -- Non-LTE modeling of supernova-fallback disks -- Chandra observations of neutron stars: an overview -- XMM-Newton observations of the isolated neutron star 1RXS J214303.7+065419/RBS1774 -- Persistent and transient blank field sources -- The Magnificent Seven in the dusty prairie -- The magnificent seven: magnetic fields and surface temperature distributions -- Isolated neutron stars: magnetic fields, distances, and spectra -- Studies of neutron stars at optical/IR wavelengths -- Radio emission from AXP and XDINS -- Measuring proper motions of isolated neutron stars with Chandra -- The trigonometric parallax of the neutron star Geminga -- The puzzling X-ray source in RCW103 -- Evidence for a binary companion to the central compact object 1E 1207.4-5209 -- Towards self-consistent models of isolated neutron stars -- Neutron star surface emission: Beyond the dipole model -- Molecular systems in a strong magnetic field -- Thin magnetic hydrogen atmospheres and the neutron star RX J1856.5–3754 -- Ultraviolet emission from young and middle-aged pulsars -- Studying millisecond pulsars in X-rays -- X-ray observations of PSR B0355+54 and its pulsar wind nebula -- New phase-coherent measurements of pulsar braking indices -- Thermal X-ray emission from hot polar cap in drifting subpulse pulsars -- The example of effective plasma acceleration in a magnetosphere -- Impact of neutron star oscillations on the accelerating electric field in the polar cap of pulsar -- Heat blanketing envelopes and thermal radiation of strongly magnetized neutron stars -- Equation of state of neutron star cores and spin down of isolated pulsars -- Equation of state constraints from neutron stars -- Neutron star masses: dwarfs, giants and neighbors -- A microscopic equation of state for protoneutron stars -- Modelling the dynamics of superfluid neutron stars -- Cooling of neutron stars with strong toroidal magnetic fields -- Internal heating and thermal emission from old neutron stars -- Thermal emission areas of heated neutron star polar caps -- Cooling of magnetars with internal layer heating -- What do exotic equations of state have to offer? -- Precession as a probe of the neutron star interior -- Spin-one color superconductivity in compact stars?—an analysis within NJL-type models -- Exotic bulk viscosity and its influence on neutron star r-modes -- Nucleon superfluidity versus thermal states of isolated and transiently accreting neutron stars -- The drift model of “magnetars” -- Importance of Compton scattering for radiation spectra of isolated neutron stars -- Search for fast optical activity of SGR 1806-20 at the SAO RAS 6-m telescope -- Instabilities in rotating relativistic stars driven by viscosity -- 10 years of RXTE monitoring of anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61: long-term variability -- Exotic ion H 3 ++ in strong magnetic fields -- The ion H 3 + in a strong magnetic field -- X-ray intensity-hardness correlation and deep IR observations of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1RXS J170849-400910 -- RX J1856.5-3754 as a possible strange star candidate -- Chandra monitoring of the candidate anomalous X-ray pulsar AX J1845.0-0258 -- Spin-down of young pulsars with a fallback disk -- Search for radio pulsations in four anomalous X-ray pulsars and discovery of two new pulsars -- On the iron interpretation of the 6.4 keV emission line from SGR 1900+14 -- Mountains on neutron stars -- Optical spectroscopy of the radio pulsar PSR B0656+14 -- On the peculiarities in the rotational frequency evolution of isolated neutron stars -- Gravitational waves from r-modes -- Giant pulses of pulsar radio emission -- On the role of the current loss in radio pulsar evolution -- Force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator with differential rotation of open magnetic field lines -- Oscillations in the neutron star crust -- Two decades of pulsar timing of Vela -- Slow glitches in the pulsar B1822-09 -- Short time scale pulse stability of the Crab pulsar in the optical band -- Using XMM-Newton to measure the spectrum of the Vela pulsar and its phase variation -- A toy model for global magnetar oscillation -- Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars -- The complex X-ray spectrum of the isolated neutron star RBS1223 -- High frequency oscillations during magnetar flares -- Magnetar corona -- Intrinsic spectra of the AXPs -- The first multi-wavelength campaign of AXP 4U 0142+61 from radio to hard X-rays.
This book collects the contributions presented at the conference Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior, held in London in April 2006. Forty years after the discovery of radio pulsars it presents an up-to-date description of the new vision of isolated neutron stars that has emerged in recent years with the advance of multi-wavelength observations. The great variety of isolated neutron stars, from pulsars to magnetars, some of them discovered very recently and many of them not detectable in radio wavelengths, is amply covered by descriptions of recent observational results and presentations of the latest theoretical interpretation of these data.
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy—Observations.
Astrophysics.
Nuclear physics.
Heavy ions.
Atoms.
Physics.
Plasma (Ionized gases).
Superconductivity.
Superconductors.
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
Astrophysics and Astroparticles.
Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.
Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.
Plasma Physics.
Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.