• Revisiting Field Burial by Accretion onto Neutron Stars

• # Fulltext

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/joaa/038/03/0048

• # Keywords

Neutron stars; magnetic fields; binaries: general.

• # Abstract

The surface magnetic field strength of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is found to be about 4 orders of magnitude lower than that of garden variety radio pulsars (with a spin of ${\sim }$0.5–5 s and $B{\sim }10^{12}\hbox { G}$). The exact mechanism of the apparent reduction of field strength in MSPs is still a subject of debate. One of the proposed mechanisms is burial of the surface magnetic field under matter accreted from a companion. In this article we review the recent work on magnetic confinement of accreted matter on neutron stars poles. We present the solutions of the magneto-static equations with a more accurate equation of state of the magnetically confined plasma and discuss its implications for the field burial mechanism.

• # Author Affiliations

1. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia.

• # Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

Volume 43, 2022
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