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Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement No.151 (2003) pp. 54-63

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Measuring Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars

Kazuo Makishima*

Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
and
Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako 351-0198, Japan

(Received April 29, 2003)

Abstract:

A review is made of accurate measurements of surface magnetic field intensities of binary X-ray pulsars, using cyclotron resonance features in their X-ray spectra. The field strengths so far measured from about 15 objects are clustered in a range of (1-4) ×108 T. Implications of these results are discussed, leading to an inference that the strong magnetic field of neutron stars might result from alignment of the neutron star magnetic moments.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTPS/151/54/
DOI : 10.1143/PTPS.151.54


* E-mail: maxima@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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