Magnetars

VM Kaspi, AM Beloborodov - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Magnetars are young and highly magnetized neutron stars that display a wide array of X-ray
activity including short bursts, large outbursts, giant flares, and quasi-periodic oscillations …

Magnetars: the physics behind observations. A review

R Turolla, S Zane, AL Watts - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the present universe and the combination of
extreme magnetic field, gravity and density makes them unique laboratories to probe current …

[PDF][PDF] VU Research Portal

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - PHYSICAL REVIEW D …, 2021 - research.vu.nl
The Advanced LIGO [1] and Advanced Virgo [2] detectors have made numerous detections
of gravitational waves (GWs), to date consisting of short-duration (transient) GWs emitted …

Stingray: a modern Python library for spectral timing

D Huppenkothen, M Bachetti, AL Stevens… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the design and implementation of stingray, a library in Python built to
perform time series analysis and related tasks on astronomical light curves. Its core …

Towards understanding astrophysical effects of nuclear symmetry energy

BA Li, PG Krastev, DH Wen, NB Zhang - The European Physical Journal A, 2019 - Springer
Determining the Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nuclear matter is a shared
goal of both nuclear physics and astrophysics. Except possible phase transitions, the density …

Color superconductivity in dense quark matter

MG Alford, A Schmitt, K Rajagopal, T Schäfer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008 - APS
Matter at high density and low temperature is expected to be a color superconductor, which
is a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks with a condensate of Cooper pairs near the Fermi …

Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraints

JM Lattimer, M Prakash - Physics reports, 2007 - Elsevier
We investigate how current and proposed observations of neutron stars can lead to an
understanding of the state of their interiors and the key unknowns: the typical neutron star …

[HTML][HTML] Physics of neutron star crusts

N Chamel, P Haensel - Living Reviews in relativity, 2008 - Springer
The physics of neutron star crusts is vast, involving many different research fields, from
nuclear and condensed matter physics to general relativity. This review summarizes the …

Spontaneous scalarization

DD Doneva, FM Ramazanoğlu, HO Silva… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Scalarization is a mechanism that endows strongly self-gravitating bodies, such as neutron
stars and black holes, with a scalar-field configuration. It resembles a phase transition in that …

The next generation global gravitational wave observatory: the science book

V Kalogera, BS Sathyaprakash, M Bailes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will observe
coalescences of black holes and neutron stars throughout the cosmos, thousands of them …