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Neutron Star Kicks and Supernova Asymmetry
Dong Lai
Observations over the last decade have shown that neutron stars receive a large kick velocity (of order a hundred to a thousand km/s) at birth. The physical origin of the kicks and…
Matter and Radiation in Superstrong Magnetic Fields and Thermal Emission from Neutron Stars
Dong Lai, W. C. G. Ho
Thermal surface emissions have now been detected from more than a dozen isolated neutron stars, including radio pulsars, radio-quiet neutron stars and magnetars. These detections c…
Core-Collapse Supernovae and Neutron Star Kicks
Dong Lai
Recent observations have revealed many new puzzles related to core-collapse supernovae, including the formation of magnetars and black holes and their possible GRB connections. We…
Comment on ``The Effect of Vacuum Polarization ... in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas'' by Ozel (astro-ph/0203449)
Dong Lai, Wynn C. G. Ho
We have recently shown that in a highly magnetized neutron star atmospheric plasma, vacuum polarization can induce resonant conversion of photon polarization modes via a mechanism…
Neutron Star Kicks and Asymmetric Supernovae
Dong Lai
Observational advances over the last decade have left little doubt that neutron stars received a large kick velocity (of order a few hundred to a thousand km/s) at birth. The physi…
Precession of Magnetically Driven Warped Disks and Low-Frequency QPOs in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries
Akiko Shirakawa, Dong Lai
An accretion disk around a rotating magnetized star is subjected to magnetic torques which induce disk warping and precession. These torques arise from interactions between the ste…