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Ballooning Instability in Polar Caps of Accreting Neutron Stars

C. Litwin, Edward F. Brown, R. Rosner

We assess the stability of Kruskal-Schwarzschild (magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor) type modes for accreted matter on the surface of a neutron star confined by a strong (>= 1.E12 G) magnet…