The Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to Death

Session

Afternoon session - Parallel B

27 Mar 2014, 14:30

Conveners

Afternoon session - Parallel B

• Nanda Rea ((CSIC-IEEC Barcelona/University of Amsterdam))

80. Radio pulsar emission and crustal field evolution

Prof. Gogi Melikidze (University of Zielona Gora), Prof. Janusz Gil (University of Zielona Gora), Prof. Ulrich Geppert (DLR and University of Zielona Gora)

27/03/2014, 14:30

Models of pulsar radio emission that are based on an inner accelerating region require the existence of very strong and small scale surface magnetic field structures at or near the canonical polar cap. The aim of this paper is to identify a mechanism that creates such field structures and maintains them over a pulsar's lifetime. The likely physical process that can create the required...

6. The tormented quiescence of the transient neutron star low mass X-ray binary Centaurus X-4

Federico Bernardini (w)

27/03/2014, 14:50

In low mass X-ray binaries a compact object, a black hole or a neutron star, is coupled with a late-type companion star, with mass lower than that of the Sun. Many low mass X-ray binaries are transient and they spend the bulk of their time in the so-called quiescent state, where their X-ray emission is low, just a tiny fraction of the Eddington luminosity. But, the physical mechanisms...

96. X-ray observations of gamma-ray pulsars detected by Fermi

Dr Roberto Mignani (INAF/IASF)

27/03/2014, 15:10

In this talk, we present the outcome of X-ray and optical/IR observations of gamma-ray pulsars detected by Fermi, as a part of a program aimed at completing the multi-wavelength coverage of these sources. We found X-ray counterparts for five Fermi pulsars, and we observed in X-ray some unidentified Fermi sources believed to be isolatd neutron stars.

79. Searching for pulsars with Einstein@Home

David Keitel (Albert Einstein Institute)

27/03/2014, 15:30

The distributed computing project Einstein@Home searches for unknown pulsars in large data sets. So far, more than 350,000 volunteers from the world-wide public have signed up their computers to run scientific analyses with their spare cycles, reaching a teraflop peak performance. Einstein@Home was originally created to search for continuous gravitational waves (GWs), but is now also analysing...