TESTING MODELS OF MAGNETIC FIELD EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS WITH THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THEIR SPIN EVOLUTIONS

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	TESTING MODELS OF MAGNETIC FIELD EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS WITH THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THEIR SPIN EVOLUTIONS
	Zhang SN(张双南); Zhang, SN; Xie, Y
刊名	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
	2012
卷号	757 期号:2 页码:153
关键词	magnetic fields methods: statistical pulsars: general stars: neutron
英文摘要	We test models for the evolution of neutron star (NS) magnetic fields (B). Our model for the evolution of the NS spin is taken from an analysis of pulsar timing noise presented by Hobbs et al.. We first test the standard model of a pulsar's magnetosphere in which B does not change with time and magnetic dipole radiation is assumed to dominate the pulsar's spin-down. We find that this model fails to predict both the magnitudes and signs of the second derivatives of the spin frequencies (nu). We then construct a phenomenological model of the evolution of B, which contains a long-term decay (LTD) modulated by short-term oscillations; a pulsar's spin is thus modified by its B-evolution. We find that an exponential LTD is not favored by the observed statistical properties of nu for young pulsars and fails to explain the fact that nu is negative for roughly half of the old pulsars. A simple power-law LTD can explain all the observed statistical properties of nu. Finally, we discuss some physical implications of our results to models of the B-decay of NSs and suggest reliable determination of the true ages of many young NSs is needed, in order to constrain further the physical mechanisms of their B-decay. Our model can be further tested with the measured evolutions of (nu) over dot and nu for an individual pulsar; the decay index, oscillation amplitude, and period can also be determined this way for the pulsar.
学科主题	Astronomy & Astrophysics
收录类别	SCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000309108500046
公开日期	2016-05-03
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihep.ac.cn/handle/311005/224435]
专题	高能物理研究所_粒子天体物理中心
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang SN,Zhang, SN,Xie, Y. TESTING MODELS OF MAGNETIC FIELD EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS WITH THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THEIR SPIN EVOLUTIONS[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2012,757(2):153.
APA	张双南,Zhang, SN,&Xie, Y.(2012).TESTING MODELS OF MAGNETIC FIELD EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS WITH THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THEIR SPIN EVOLUTIONS.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,757(2),153.
MLA	张双南,et al."TESTING MODELS OF MAGNETIC FIELD EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS WITH THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THEIR SPIN EVOLUTIONS".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 757.2(2012):153.