Spontaneous wandering of the magnetic axis in pulsars: 3D magneto-thermal simulations and the imprint on braking indices

arXiv:2609.17436 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-15 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures. Submitted for publication

Code: https://github.com/ice-csic-astroexotic/MATINS

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

Terminology

• Alignment — 28× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ambipolar Diffusion — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Research Council — 1× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Superfluid Vortex Lines-Magnetic Flux Tubes Interaction and Braking Indices of Pulsars

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