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arxiv: astro-ph/0111374 · v2 · submitted 2001-11-20 · 🌌 astro-ph

Neutron star composition in strong magnetic fields

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keywords fieldmagneticneutronstrongcompositionmatterstaranomalous
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We study the problem of neutron star composition in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The effects of the anomalous magnetic moments of both nucleons and electrons are investigated in relativistic mean field calculations for a $\beta$-equilibrium system. Since neutrons are fully spin polarized in a large field, generally speaking, the proton fraction can never exceed the field free case. An extremely strong magnetic field may lead to a pure neutron matter instead of a proton-rich matter.

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