Old Neutron Star Theoretical papers



The detection of Old Neutron Stars accreting from the interstellar medium is a long-sought goal of X-ray astronomy. The first systematic studies of the observability of ONS with ROSAT were carried out by Treves & Colpi (1991), Blaes & Madau (1993) and Zane et al. (1995). Here you will find a list of references (and when possible of papers) concerning ONSs.

Here is a list of papers (click on the first author to retreive the paper):

Emission spectra:

Alme M.L. & Wilson J.R., 1973, ApJ, 186, 1015

Nelson R.W., Wang J.C.L., Salpeter E.E. & Wasserman I., A potential cyclotron line signature in low-luminosity X-ray sources, 1995, ApJ 438 L99

Zampieri L., Turolla R., Zane S. & Treves A., X-ray spectra from neutron stars accreting at low rates, 1995, ApJ 439 849

Pavlov G.G., Zavlin V.E., Trumper J. & Neuhauser R., Multiwavelength observations of isolated neutron stars as a tool to probe the properties of their surfaces, 1996, ApJ 472 L33

ONS in Molecular Clouds:

Colpi M., Campana S. & Treves A., Observability of old neutron stars: molecular clouds and ROSAT deep fields, 1993, A&A 278 161

Zane S., Turolla R., Zampieri L., Colpi M. & Treves A., Old isolated accreting neutron stars: contribution to the soft X-ray background in the 0.5-2 keV band, 1995, ApJ 451 739

Belloni T., Zampieri L. & Campana S. Search for Old Neutron Stars in molecular clouds: Cygnus Rift and Cygnus OB7, 1997, A&A 319 525

ONS population:

Ostriker J.P., Rees M.J. & Silk J., 1970, Astrophys. Letters 6 179

Treves A. & Colpi M., The observability of old isolated neutron stars , 1991, A&A 241 107

Blaes O. & Madau P., Can we observe accreting, isolated neutron stars?, 1993, ApJ 403 690

Madau P. & Blaes O., Constraints on accreting, isolated neutron stars from the ROSAT and EUVE surveys, 1994, ApJ 423 748

Zane S., Turolla R., Zampieri L., Colpi M. & Treves A., Old isolated accreting neutron stars: contribution to the soft X-ray background in the 0.5-2 keV band, 1995, ApJ 451 739

Blaes O., Warren O. & Madau P., Accreting, Isolated Neutron Stars. III. Preheating of Infalling Gas and Cometary H ii Regions, 1995, ApJ 454 370

Solar proximity:

Shemi A., Are Unidentified EUV Sources the Closest Neutron Stars?, 1995, MNRAS 275 L7

Zane S., Zampieri L., Turolla R. & Treves A., The observability of old neutron stars accreting the interstellar medium: III. The solar vicinity, 1996, A&A 309 469

Maoz D., Ofek E.O. & Shemi A., Evidence for a new class of extreme UV sources, 1997, MNRAS 283 293

High Energy Emission:

Shemi A., Cosmic rays from accreting isolated neutron stars, 1995, MNRAS

Blasi P., High energy gamma rays from old accreting neutron stars, 1996, ApJ 473 985

Venkatesan A., Miller M.C. & Olinto A.V., Constraints on the production of ultra-high energy cosmic rays by isolated neutron stars, 1997, ApJ 484 323

Reviews and Proceedings (just a few):

Turolla R., X-ray Emission from Old, Isolated, Accreting Neutron Stars , 1996, talk presented at the 2nd Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow May 20-25, 1996, to appear in the Proceedings

Treves A., Turolla R. & Colpi M., The observability of Old Neutron Stars accreting the interstellar medium, 1996, talk presented at the NATO school "The many faces of neutron stars", Lipari October 1996, to appear in the Proceedings

Belloni T., Zampieri L. & Campana S., Search for Old Neutron Stars in molecular clouds: Cygnus Rift and Cygnus OB7, 1996, talk presented at the NATO school "The many faces of neutron stars", Lipari October 1996, to appear in the Proceedings

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