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Radiative heat transfer in surface layers of neutron stars with a magnetic field

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Thermal conductivity due to Thomson scattering and free-free absorption of photons is numerically evaluated for a non-relativistic non-degenerate plasma in a magnetic field for a number of values ofb =ħωB/kT ⩾ 1000. In the case of pure scattering, simple fitting formulae are derived. Atb≫6, the magnetic field is shown to decrease (by about one order) the characteristic densities above which heat transfer is mainly determined by free-free transitions.

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  1. A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, U.S.S.R.

    N. A. Silant'ev & D. G. Yakovlev

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Silant'ev, N.A., Yakovlev, D.G. Radiative heat transfer in surface layers of neutron stars with a magnetic field. Astrophys Space Sci 71, 45–50 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00646906

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