Magnetars are neutron stars characterized by some of the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe, as well as their intense X-ray and gamma-ray emissions and outbursts. An international team ...

The Tayler-Spruit dynamo mechanism is thought to convert the angular momentum of infalling plasma to magnetic fields within the neutron star. This is similar to how mechanical dynamos on Earth ...

Up to the present, all the evidence is in favour of the neutron, while the quantum hypothesis can only be upheld if the conservation of energy and momentum be relinquished at some point.

When they are formed, neutron stars rotate in space. As they compress and shrink, this spinning speeds up because of the conservation of angular momentum—the same principle that causes a ...

The data obtained from a neutron reflectometry experiment is a reflectivity curve, which plots the reflected intensity as a function of the momentum transfer (Q ... a crucial role in the ...

Neutrons are very useful to material probes and can be created in reactors or by accelerators. The most intense accelerator-based neutron sources are called spallation sources and use a process that ...

Like any substance, neutron stars have an equation of state, or more precisely a phase diagram, such as that for water. The properties of a neutron star are determined by quantum chromodynamics ...