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Bragg diffraction and the Iron crust of Neutron Stars | | Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada
; Gaspar Moreno Navarro
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29 May 2009 | | Abstract: | If neutron stars have a thin atomic crystalline-iron crust, they must
diffract X-rays of appropriate wavelength. So that the diffracted beam is
visible from Earth, the illuminating source must be very intense and near the
reflecting star. An example is a binary system with two neutron stars, one of
them inert, the other an X-ray pulsar, in close orbit. The observable to be
searched for is a secondary peak added (quasi-) periodically to the main X-ray
pulse. The distinguishing feature of this secondary is that it appears at
wavelengths related by simple integer numbers, lambda, lambda/2, lambda/3...
lambda/n because of Bragg’s diffraction law. | | Source: | arXiv, 0905.4837 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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