Ohmic decay of magnetic flux expelled from neutron star interiors

dc.contributor.author	Bhattacharya, D
dc.contributor.author	Datta, B
dc.date.accessioned	2008-07-22T11:37:08Z
dc.date.available	2008-07-22T11:37:08Z
dc.date.issued	1996-10
dc.identifier.citation	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 282, No. 3, pp. 1059 - 1063	en
dc.identifier.issn	0035-8711
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/2816
dc.description.abstract	We study Ohmic diffusion of magnetic flux expelled from the superconducting core of a neutron star to its crust owing to spindown-induced field evolution. We find that Ohmic decay time-scales in the range 10^7.5-10^9 yr obtain for a wide range of crustal temperatures and impurity concentrations for various equation of state models of neutron star matter. This result is in agreement with the Ohmic time-scale that appears to be required to explain observed magnetic field strengths of isolated and binary neutron stars in the spindown-induced magnetic flux expulsion scenario	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Royal Astronomical Society	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996MNRAS.282.1059B	en
dc.subject	Magnetic fields - stars	en
dc.subject	Neutron - pulsars	en
dc.subject	General	en
dc.title	Ohmic decay of magnetic flux expelled from neutron star interiors	en
dc.type	Article	en