Strange Pulsar Hypothesis
arXiv:astro-ph/0511106 · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09822.x
Abstract
It appears that there is a genuine shortage of radio pulsars with surface magnetic fields significantly smaller than Gauss. We propose that the pulsars with very low magnetic fields are actually strange stars locked in a state of minimum free energy and therefore at a limiting value of the magnetic field which can not be lowered by the system spontaneously.
4 pages, 1 figure, uses LaTeX2e(mn2e.cls) and astrobib(mnras.bst), accepted in MNRAS