Vacuum polarization and cyclotron resonance effects on radiative transfer and plasma deceleration in subcritical X-ray pulsars

arXiv:2605.06162 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-05-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-07

Updated: 2026-08-10

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS. The accepted version (v3) is corrected and supplemented with two new figures

Journal ref: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 551, stag1517 (2026)

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1517

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Absorption Cross Section — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Accreting strongly magnetised neutron stars: X-ray Pulsars
• Atmospheres and radiating surfaces of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields

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