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通过内部磁弹性振荡调制磁星的磁层

Modulating the magnetosphere of magnetars by internal magneto-elastic oscillations

Michael Gabler, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Nikolaos Stergioulas, José A. Font, Ewald Müller

摘要:

我们耦合内部扭转,磁弹性振荡的高度磁化的中子星(磁星),他们的磁层。外部磁场配置的相应轴对称扰动演化为一系列线性、无力平衡,这些平衡完全由背景磁场配置和表面处的磁场扰动确定。的扰动获得的磁星内部的磁弹性振荡的模拟。虽然这种振荡只能在靠近两极的一个非常有限的区域内激发出恒星外部的阿尔文行波,但它们仍然通过在以极角$\gtrsim 0.19\,$ rad离开恒星的闭合磁场的脚点之间引起随时间变化的扭曲来调制近磁层。此外,我们发现,对于一个偶极类背景磁场配置的磁场调制的磁层,由内部振荡驱动,只能是关于赤道对称。这与我们以前的研究结果一致,在那里我们解释了所观察到的准周期振荡磁星爆发的X射线尾驱动的家庭的内部磁弹性振荡与对称磁场扰动。

英文摘要:

We couple internal torsional, magneto-elastic oscillations of highly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars) to their magnetospheres. The corresponding axisymmetric perturbations of the external magnetic field configuration evolve as a sequence of linear, force-free equilibria that are completely determined by the background magnetic field configuration and by the perturbations of the magnetic field at the surface. The perturbations are obtained from simulations of magneto-elastic oscillations in the interior of the magnetar. While such oscillations can excite travelling Alfvén waves in the exterior of the star only in a very limited region close to the poles, they still modulate the near magnetosphere by inducing a time-dependent twist between the foot-points of closed magnetic field lines that exit the star at a polar angle $\gtrsim 0.19\,$rad. Moreover, we find that for a dipole-like background magnetic field configuration the magnetic field modulations in the magnetosphere, driven by internal oscillations, can only be symmetric with respect to the equator. This is in agreement with our previous findings, where we interpreted the observed quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray tail of magnetar bursts as driven by the family of internal magneto-elastic oscillations with symmetric magnetic field perturbations.

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