Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior (eBook)

Recent progress on anomalous X-ray pulsars.- XMMâNewton observations of soft gamma-ray repeaters.- MMIV: de SGR 1806â20 Anno Mirabili.- Long term spectral variability in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14.- The radio nebula produced by the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20.- The continuum and line spectra of SGR 1806-20 bursts.- Unveiling soft gamma-ray repeaters with INTEGRAL.- Our distorted view of magnetars: application of the resonant cyclotron scattering model.- Spitzer space telescope observations of SGR and AXP environments.- Anomalous X-ray pulsars: persistent states with fallback disks.- The anatomy of a magnetar: XMM monitoring of the transient anomalous X-ray pulsar XTE J1810â197.- PSR J1119â6127 and the X-ray emission from high magnetic field radio pulsars.- Chandra smells a RRAT.- QED can explain the non-thermal emission from SGRs and AXPs: variability.- Resonant Compton upscattering in anomalous X-ray pulsars.- Newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of magnetar candidates.- Astrophysical input for gravitational wave searches.- Dim isolated neutron stars, cooling and energy dissipation.- Accretion by isolated neutron stars.- Non-LTE modeling of supernova-fallback disks.- Chandra observations of neutron stars: an overview.- XMM-Newton observations of the isolated neutron star 1RXS J214303.7+065419/RBS1774.- Persistent and transient blank field sources.- The Magnificent Seven in the dusty prairie.- The magnificent seven: magnetic fields and surface temperature distributions.- Isolated neutron stars: magnetic fields, distances, and spectra.- Studies of neutron stars at optical/IR wavelengths.- Radio emission from AXP and XDINS.- Measuring proper motions of isolated neutron stars with Chandra.- The trigonometric parallax of the neutron star Geminga.- The puzzling X-ray source in RCW103.- Evidence for a binary companion to the central compact object 1E 1207.4-5209.- Towards self-consistent models of isolated neutron stars.- Neutron star surface emission: Beyond the dipole model.- Molecular systems in a strong magnetic field.- Thin magnetic hydrogen atmospheres and the neutron star RX J1856.5â3754.- Ultraviolet emission from young and middle-aged pulsars.- Studying millisecond pulsars in X-rays.- X-ray observations of PSR B0355+54 and its pulsar wind nebula.- New phase-coherent measurements of pulsar braking indices.- Thermal X-ray emission from hot polar cap in drifting subpulse pulsars.- The example of effective plasma acceleration in a magnetosphere.- Impact of neutron star oscillations on the accelerating electric field in the polar cap of pulsar.- Heat blanketing envelopes and thermal radiation of strongly magnetized neutron stars.- Equation of state of neutron star cores and spin down of isolated pulsars.- Equation of state constraints from neutron stars.- Neutron star masses: dwarfs, giants and neighbors.- A microscopic equation of state for protoneutron stars.- Modelling the dynamics of superfluid neutron stars.- Cooling of neutron stars with strong toroidal magnetic fields.- Internal heating and thermal emission from old neutron stars.- Thermal emission areas of heated neutron star polar caps.- Cooling of magnetars with internal layer heating.- What do exotic equations of state have to offer?.- Precession as a probe of the neutron star interior.- Spin-one color superconductivity in compact stars?âan analysis within NJL-type models.- Exotic bulk viscosity and its influence on neutron star r-modes.- Nucleon superfluidity versus thermal states of isolated and transiently accreting neutron stars.- The drift model of âmagnetarsâ.- Importance of Compton scattering for radiation spectra of isolated neutron stars.- Search for fast optical activity of SGR 1806-20 at the SAO RAS 6-m telescope.- Instabilities in rotating relativistic stars driven by viscosity.- 10 years of RXTE monitoring of anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61: long-term variability.- Exotic ion H 3 ++ in strong magnetic fields.- The ion H 3 + in a strong magnetic field.- X-ray intensity-hardness correlation and deep IR observations of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1RXS J170849-400910.- RX J1856.5-3754 as a possible strange star candidate.- Chandra monitoring of the candidate anomalous X-ray pulsar AX J1845.0-0258.- Spin-down of young pulsars with a fallback disk.- Search for radio pulsations in four anomalous X-ray pulsars and discovery of two new pulsars.- On the iron interpretation of the 6.4 keV emission line from SGR 1900+14.- Mountains on neutron stars.- Optical spectroscopy of the radio pulsar PSR B0656+14.- On the peculiarities in the rotational frequency evolution of isolated neutron stars.- Gravitational waves from r-modes.- Giant pulses of pulsar radio emission.- On the role of the current loss in radio pulsar evolution.- Force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator with differential rotation of open magnetic field lines.- Oscillations in the neutron star crust.- Two decades of pulsar timing of Vela.- Slow glitches in the pulsar B1822-09.- Short time scale pulse stability of the Crab pulsar in the optical band.- Using XMM-Newton to measure the spectrum of the Vela pulsar and its phase variation.- A toy model for global magnetar oscillation.- Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars.- The complex X-ray spectrum of the isolated neutron star RBS1223.- High frequency oscillations during magnetar flares.- Magnetar corona.- Intrinsic spectra of the AXPs.- The first multi-wavelength campaign of AXP 4U 0142+61 from radio to hard X-rays.