Thermal emission from low-field neutron stars

Preprint

4 March 2002

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0110130

Abstract

We present a new grid of LTE model atmospheres for weakly magnetic (B<=10e10G) neutron stars, using opacity and equation of state data from the OPAL project and employing a fully frequency- and angle-dependent radiation transfer. We discuss the differences from earlier models, including a comparison with a detailed NLTE calculation. We suggest heating of the outer layers of the neutron star atmosphere as an explanation for the featureless X-ray spectra of RX J1856.5-3754 and RX J0720.4-3125 recently observed with Chandra and XMM.

Keywords

MODEL ATMOSPHERES
THERMAL EMISSION
NEUTRON STARS
FIELD NEUTRON
OPACITY
STARS
OPAL
LTE

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Published version: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 386 (3), 1001.

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