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强涡旋钉扎超流中子星中的磁流体波

Hydromagnetic waves in a superfluid neutron star with strong vortex pinning

Maarten van Hoven, Yuri Levin

摘要:

中子星的核心可能是中子超流体和质子超导体的独特混合物的宿主。多年来,人们提出了令人信服的理论论点,即如果质子超导体是II型的,那么超导体磁通管和超流涡旋应该是强耦合的,因此涡旋应该被钉扎到核心中的质子-电子等离子体。我们探讨了这种钉扎效应对地核磁流体波的影响,并讨论了我们的结果的两个天体物理应用:1。我们表明,即使在强钉扎的情况下,核心阿尔芬波被认为是负责的低频磁星准周期振荡(QPO)是不显着的质量加载的中子。实际上,对于简单的磁几何形状和不大于10^{15}高斯的磁场,为了解释QPO频率,需要从阿尔芬波中解耦大约0.95的核心质量。2.我们表明,在强涡钉扎的情况下,磁流体应力施加稳定的影响,Glaberson不稳定性,这是最近被提出作为一个潜在的来源超流湍流在中子星。

英文摘要:

Neutron-star cores may be hosts of a unique mixture of a neutron superfluid and a proton superconductor. Compelling theoretical arguments have been presented over the years that if the proton superconductor is of type II, than the superconductor fluxtubes and superfluid vortices should be strongly coupled and hence the vortices should be pinned to the proton-electron plasma in the core. We explore the effect of this pinning on the hydromagnetic waves in the core, and discuss 2 astrophysical applications of our results: 1. We show that even in the case of strong pinning, the core Alfven waves thought to be responsible for the low-frequency magnetar quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) are not significantly mass-loaded by the neutrons. The decoupling of about 0.95 of the core mass from the Alfven waves is in fact required in order to explain the QPO frequencies, for simple magnetic geometries and for magnetic fields not greater than 10^{15} Gauss. 2. We show that in the case of strong vortex pinning, hydromagnetic stresses exert stabilizing influence on the Glaberson instability, which has recently been proposed as a potential source of superfluid turbulence in neutron stars.

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