Magneto-thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars:
towards the grand unification
Daniele Vigaṇ
Universitat d'Alacant
Thanks to the last decades of X-ray observations, the picture of an
apparently heterogeneous zoo of isolated neutron stars is emerging. In the
attempt of unifying their different phenomenological classes, a key issue
is the understanding of the cooling and spin-down history of the isolated
neutron stars. I present the results of our recent 2D code in which the
thermal evolution is coupled to the magnetic field evolution, including,
for the first time, both Ohmic dissipation and Hall drift. Theoretical
models, and their predictions, are then compared with observational data of
about fourty isolated neutron stars, belonging to different observational
classes, in which the thermal emission has been clearly detected.
Date: | Wednesday, 6 February 2013 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |
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