Magnetic field decay in radio pulsars

15 May 2015, 12:00
30m
Talk SMFNS2015

Speaker

Sergei Popov (Moscow State University)

Description

We apply a new method to probe evolution of the magnetic field of normal radio pulsars in the range of ages from several tens of thousand years to several hundred thousand years. It is demonstrated that in the period ~80000-300000 years the field decay by a factor ~2. We discuss how this evolution can be related to the Hall cascade and Hall attractor.

Primary author

Sergei Popov (Moscow State University)

Co-author

Mr Andrei Igoshev (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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