The dissipation of toroidal magnetic fields and spin‐down evolution of young and strongly magnetized pulsars

Magnetars are a kind of pulsars powered mainly by superhigh magnetic fields. They are popular sources with many unsolved issues in themselves but are also linked to various high‐energy phenomena, such as quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs), giant flares, fast radio bursts, and superluminous supernova...

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Published in:Astronomische Nachrichten 2021-01, Vol.342 (1-2), p.369-376
Main Authors: Gao, Zhi Fu, Shan, Hao, Wang, Hui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Braking
braking index
Energy dissipation
Evolution
Magnetars
Magnetic fields
Magnetism
Plastic flow
Pulsars
Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
Radio bursts
Supernovae
toroidal magnetic field
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Summary:Magnetars are a kind of pulsars powered mainly by superhigh magnetic fields. They are popular sources with many unsolved issues in themselves but are also linked to various high‐energy phenomena, such as quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs), giant flares, fast radio bursts, and superluminous supernovae. In this work, we first review our recent works on the dissipation of toroidal magnetic fields in magnetars and rotationally powered pulsars and then review the spin‐down evolution of young and strongly magnetized pulsars, especially of magnetars. We present an interesting and important relation between the magnetization parameter and magnetic field in the magnetar crust. Finally, we introduce our two works in progress: to explain the magnetar “antiglitch” events in the thermal plastic flow model and to revisit the expression of braking index n, which is independent of the second derivative of spin frequency of a pulsar, and give some proposals for our future work.
ISSN:0004-6337
1521-3994
DOI:10.1002/asna.202113936