Variable opacity and accretion-column regimes of magnetized neutron stars

arXiv:2609.28134 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• International Space Science Institute — 1× in this paper
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Rapid quasi-periodic reconfiguration of the accretion column in pulsar 1A 0535+262

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