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Magnetic Neutron Stars. I. Static Field Configurations
Author(s) -
Dautcourt G.,
Fritze K.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.19702920505
Subject(s) - physics , neutron star , magnetic field , magnetic dipole , curl (programming language) , stars , magnetohydrodynamics , dipole , astrophysics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
The paper is the first in a series dealing with the structure of magnetic and rotating neutron stars including general relativistic effects. The geometry of fossile magnetic fields frozen in the highly conductive neutron star matter in a non‐rotating (or weakly rotating) star is studied. § 2 treats the general poloidal field in a vacuum outside the star. The geometry of magnetic fields within the star — whose matter is governed by a barytropic equation of state — is restricted by the condition that the magnetic force density should be curl‐free to maintain equilibrium (§ 3). Numerical results are obtained for a poloidal and a toroidal dipole field (§ 4).