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arxiv: 1404.7228 · v1 · pith:7LBUIFK6new · submitted 2014-04-29 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

How can newly born rapidly rotating neutron stars become magnetars?

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keywords fieldneutronborninstabilitynewlystartoroidalbecome
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In a newly born (high-temperature and Keplerian rotating) neutron star, r-mode instability can lead to stellar differential rotation, which winds the seed poloidal magnetic field ($\sim 10^{11}$ G) to generate an ultra-high ($\sim 10^{17}$ G) toroidal field component. Subsequently, by succumbing to the Tayler instability, the toroidal field could be partially transformed into a new poloidal field. Through such dynamo processes, the newly born neutron star with sufficiently rapid rotation could become a magnetar on a timescale of $\sim 10^{2-3}$ s, with a surface dipolar magnetic field of $\sim10^{15}$ G. Accompanying the field amplification, the star could spin down to a period of $\sim5$ ms through gravitational wave radiation due to the r-mode instability and, in particular, the non-axisymmetric stellar deformation caused by the toroidal field. This scenario provides a possible explanation for why the remnant neutron stars formed in gamma-ray bursts and superluminous supernovae could be millisecond magnetars.

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