Thermal emission from low-field neutron stars
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Thermal emission from low-field neutron stars
We present a new grid of LTE model atmospheres for weakly magnetic (B <∼ 10 10 G) neutron stars, using opacity and equation of state data from the OPAL project and employing a fully frequency and angle dependent radiation transfer. We discuss the differences to earlier models, including a comparison with a detailed NLTE calculation. As a first application of the new synthetic spectra, we re-ana...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020332