Magnetospheric flows in X-ray pulsars II: Heating, cooling and ionization degree at sub-critical accretion

arXiv:2607.10342 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-11 · Read on arXiv

Alexander A. Mushtukov, Alexander Y. Potekhin, Valery F. Suleimanov, Andrew Yu, Sergey S. Tsygankov

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-11

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS, 19 pages, 9 figures

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1281

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Quantization — 3× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• General Relativity — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Accreting strongly magnetised neutron stars: X-ray Pulsars
• Propeller effect in action: Unveiling quenched accretion in the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63

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