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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…
Atmospheres and Spectra of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars -- III. Partially Ionized Hydrogen Models
Wynn C. G. Ho, Dong Lai, Alexander Y. Potekhin +1
We construct partially ionized hydrogen atmosphere models for magnetized neutron stars in radiative equilibrium with surface fields B=10^12-5 \times 10^14 G and effective temperatu…
Warping and Precession of Accretion Disks Around Magnetic Stars: Nonlinear Evolution
Harald P. Pfeiffer, Dong Lai
The inner region of the accretion disk around a magnetized star (T Tauri star, white dwarf or neutron star) is subjected to magnetic torques that induce warping and precession of t…
Warping of Accretion Disks with Magnetically Driven Outflows: A Possible Origin for Jet Precession
Dong Lai
Current theoretical models for the outflows/jets from AGN, X-ray binaries and young stellar objects involve large-scale magnetic fields threading an underlying accretion disk. We s…
Polarized X-Ray Emission from Magnetized Neutron Stars: Signature of Strong-Field Vacuum Polarization
Dong Lai, Wynn C. G. Ho
In the atmospheric plasma of a strongly magnetized neutron star, vacuum polarization can induce a Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein like resonance across which a X-ray photon may (depen…
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…