On Possible Reduction of Equilibrium Radius of a Neutron Star Influenced by Superstrong Magnetic Field
Author(s) -
В. В. Скобелев
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advances in high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1687-7365
pISSN - 1687-7357
DOI - 10.1155/2012/309304
Subject(s) - neutron star , physics , radius , magnetic field , degenerate energy levels , pulsar , star (game theory) , astrophysics , field (mathematics) , quantum mechanics , computer science , computer security , mathematics , pure mathematics
Necessary condition for β-decay suppression of a neutron in degenerate magnetized electron gas is formulated. Based on this, it is shown that, in superstrong magnetic field, equilibrium radius of a neutron star is approximately several times smaller than without the field influence. Therefore, we can make a prediction that in short-period pulsars, such fields can be observed. In fact, possible existence of new class of stellar objects is noted, the objects with superstrong magnetic field and supersmall radius about 1 km which we named minimagnetars. They can be detected by gravitational red shift of their radiation
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