Speaker
Prof.
Jose Pons
(University of Alicante)
Description
Observations of high magnetic field pulsars have shown that their thermal luminosity is systematically higher than that of classical radio-pulsars, thus confirming the idea that magnetic fields are involved in their X-ray emission. I review the present theory describing
the fully coupled evolution of temperature and magnetic field in neutron stars, and results from numerical simulations, which
have been used in population synthesis calculations. By comparing theoretical models to a data sample of 40 sources, we can
obtain interesting constraints on the initial magnetic field distribution of neutron stars in the galaxy.
Primary author
Prof.
Jose Pons
(University of Alicante)
