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Evolution implications of neutron star magnetic fields: inferred from pulsars and cyclotron lines of HMXBs

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The evolution of neutron star (NS) magnetic field (B-field) has long been an important topic, which is still not yet settled down. Here, we analyze the NS B-fields inferred by the cyclotron resonance scattering features (CRSFs) for the high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) and by the magnetic dipole model for the spin-down pulsars. We find that the B-fields of both the 32 NS-HMXBs and 28 young pulsars with the supernova remnants follow the log-normal distributions, with the average values of \(3.4\times 10^{12}\) G and \(4.1\times 10^{12}\) G respectively, which are further verified to come from the same continuous distribution by the statistical tests. These results declaim that the two methods of measuring NS B-fields are reliable for the above two groups of samples. In addition, since the NS-HMXBs have experienced the spin-down phase as the normal pulsars without accretion and then the spin-up phase by accretion, their ages should be about million years (Myrs). Our statistical facts imply that the B-fields of NS-HMXBs have little decayed in their non-accretion spin-down phases of ∼ Myrs, as well as in their accretion phases of ∼0.1 Myrs.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11703003 and No. U1731238), the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province (Grant No. [2017]5726), NAOC-Y834081V01.

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    Cheng-Min Zhang

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Ye, CQ., Wang, DH., Zhang, CM. et al. Evolution implications of neutron star magnetic fields: inferred from pulsars and cyclotron lines of HMXBs. Astrophys Space Sci 364, 198 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-019-3690-1

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