Wednesday, January 18, 2012

1201.3455 (Tomoyuki Maruyama et al.)

Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Proto-Neutron Stars in Relativistic Mean Field Theory    [PDF]

Tomoyuki Maruyama, Nobutoshi Yasutake, Myung-Ki Cheoun, Jun Hidaka, Toshitaka Kajino. Grant. J. Mathews, Chung-Yeol Ryu
We make a perturbative calculation of neutrino scattering and absorption in hot and dense hyperonic neutron-star matter in the presence of a strong magnetic field. We find that the absorption cross-sections show a remarkable angular dependence in that the neutrino absorption strength is reduced in a direction parallel to the magnetic field and enhanced in the opposite direction. This asymmetry in the neutrino absorbtion can be as much as 2.2 % of the entire neutrino momentum for an interior magnetic field of \sim 2 x 10^{17} G. We estimate the pulsar kick velocities associated with this asymmetry in a fully relativistic mean-field theory formulation. We show that the kick velocities calculated here are comparable to observed pulsar velocities.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3455

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