The cooling of high-magnetic-field pulsars

Prior to ~20 years ago, only two kinds of pulsars were known: RPPs and accretion-powered pulsars. The rapid advance of X-ray astronomy in the past few decades has led to the discovery of magnetic-powered pulsars, namely "magnetars". Magnetars were first identified with the SGRs which exhib...

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Main Author: Zhu, Weiwei
Other Authors: Victoria Kaspi (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2011
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104725