Astrophysics and Space Science

Recent progress on anomalous X-ray pulsars
pp. 1-11(11)
Author: Kaspi, Victoria

XMM-Newton observations of soft gamma-ray repeaters
pp. 13-23(11)
Authors: Mereghetti, Sandro; Esposito, Paolo; Tiengo, Andrea

MMIV: de SGR 1806-20 Anno Mirabili: Unveiling the AXP/SGR connection
pp. 25-31(7)
Author: Israel, GianLuca

Long term spectral variability in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14
pp. 33-37(5)
Authors: Tiengo, Andrea; Esposito, Paolo; Mereghetti, Sandro; Sidoli, Lara; Götz, Diego; Feroci, Marco; Turolla, Roberto; Zane, Silvia; Israel, Gian; Stella, Luigi; Woods, Peter

The radio nebula produced by the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20
pp. 39-42(4)
Author: Gelfand, Joseph

The continuum and line spectra of SGR 1806-20 bursts
pp. 43-50(8)
Authors: Ibrahim, Alaa; Parke, William; Swank, Jean; Anwer, Hisham; Turolla, Roberto; Zane, Silvia; Hussein, M.; El-Sherbini, T.

Unveiling soft gamma-ray repeaters with INTEGRAL
pp. 51-59(9)
Authors: Götz, Diego; Mereghetti, Sandro; Hurley, Kevin

Our distorted view of magnetars: application of the resonant cyclotron scattering model
pp. 61-65(5)
Authors: Rea, Nanda; Zane, Silvia; Lyutikov, Maxim; Turolla, Roberto

Spitzer space telescope observations of SGR and AXP environments
pp. 67-71(5)
Authors: Wachter, Stefanie; Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Patel, Sandeep; Figer, Don; Woods, Peter

Anomalous X-ray pulsars: persistent states with fallback disks
pp. 73-77(5)
Authors: Ertan, Ü.; Alpar, M.; Erkut, M.; Ekşi, K.; Çalışkan, Ş.

The anatomy of a magnetar: XMM monitoring of the transient anomalous X-ray pulsar XTE J1810-197
pp. 79-87(9)
Authors: Gotthelf, E.; Halpern, J.

PSR J1119-6127 and the X-ray emission from high magnetic field radio pulsars
pp. 89-94(6)
Authors: Gonzalez, M.; Kaspi, V.; Camilo, F.; Gaensler, B.; Pivovaroff, M.

Chandra smells a RRAT: X-ray detection of a rotating radio transient
pp. 95-99(5)
Authors: Gaensler, Bryan; McLaughlin, Maura; Reynolds, Stephen; Borkowski, Kazik; Rea, Nanda; Possenti, Andrea; Israel, Gianluca; Burgay, Marta; Camilo, Fernando; Chatterjee, Shami; Kramer, Michael; Lyne, Andrew; Stairs, Ingrid

QED can explain the non-thermal emission from SGRs and AXPs: variability
pp. 101-107(7)
Author: Heyl, Jeremy

Resonant Compton upscattering in anomalous X-ray pulsars
pp. 109-118(10)
Authors: Baring, Matthew; Harding, Alice

Newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of magnetar candidates
pp. 119-124(6)
Authors: Dall'Osso, S.; Stella, L.

Astrophysical input for gravitational wave searches
pp. 125-132(8)
Author: Jones, D.

Dim isolated neutron stars, cooling and energy dissipation
pp. 133-136(4)
Author: Alpar, M.

Accretion by isolated neutron stars
pp. 137-140(4)
Author: Ikhsanov, N.

Non-LTE modeling of supernova-fallback disks
pp. 141-149(9)
Authors: Werner, Klaus; Nagel, Thorsten; Rauch, Thomas

Chandra observations of neutron stars: an overview
pp. 151-160(10)
Authors: Weisskopf, M.; Karovska, M.; Pavlov, G.; Zavlin, V.; Clarke, T.

XMM-Newton observations of the isolated neutron star 1RXS J214303.7+065419/RBS1774
pp. 161-166(6)
Authors: Cropper, Mark; Zane, Silvia; Turolla, Roberto; Zampieri, Luca; Chieregato, Matteo; Drake, Jeremy; Treves, Aldo

Persistent and transient blank field sources
pp. 167-169(3)
Authors: Treves, A.; Campana, S.; Chieregato, M.; Moretti, A.; Nelson, T.; Orio, M.

The Magnificent Seven in the dusty prairie: The role of interstellar absorption on the observed neutron star population
pp. 171-179(9)
Authors: Posselt, B.; Popov, S.; Haberl, F.; Trümper, J.; Turolla, R.; Neuhäuser, R.

The magnificent seven: magnetic fields and surface temperature distributions
pp. 181-190(10)
Author: Haberl, Frank

Isolated neutron stars: magnetic fields, distances,and spectra
pp. 191-201(11)
Authors: Kerkwijk, M.; Kaplan, D.

Studies of neutron stars at optical/IR wavelengths
pp. 203-210(8)
Authors: Mignani, R.; Bagnulo, S.; De Luca, A.; Israel, G.; Lo Curto, G.; Motch, C.; Perna, R.; Rea, N.; Turolla, R.; Zane, S.

Radio emission from AXP and XDINS
pp. 211-216(6)
Authors: Malofeev, V.; Malov, O.; Teplykh, D.

Measuring proper motions of isolated neutron stars with Chandra: Constraints on the nature and origin of the ROSAT discovered isolated neutron stars
pp. 217-224(8)
Authors: Motch, Christian; Pires, Adriana; Haberl, Frank; Schwope, Axel

The trigonometric parallax of the neutron star Geminga
pp. 225-230(6)
Authors: Faherty, Jacqueline; Walter, Frederick; Anderson, Jay

The puzzling X-ray source in RCW103
pp. 231-238(8)
Authors: Luca, A.; Caraveo, P.; Mereghetti, S.; Tiengo, A.; Bignami, G.

Evidence for a binary companion to the central compact object 1E 1207.4-5209
pp. 239-246(8)
Authors: Woods, Peter; Zavlin, Vyacheslav; Pavlov, George

Towards self-consistent models of isolated neutron stars: The case of the X-ray pulsar RX J0720-3125
pp. 247-257(11)
Authors: Pons, J.; Pérez-Azorín, J.; Miralles, J.; Miniutti, G.

Neutron star surface emission: Beyond the dipole model
pp. 259-265(7)
Author: Zane, Silvia

Molecular systems in a strong magnetic field: How atomic-molecular physics in a strong magnetic field might look like
pp. 267-277(11)
Author: Turbiner, Alexander

Thin magnetic hydrogen atmospheres and the neutron star RX J1856.5-3754
pp. 279-286(8)
Authors: Ho, Wynn; Kaplan, David; Chang, Philip; Adelsberg, Matthew; Potekhin, Alexander

Ultraviolet emission from young and middle-aged pulsars: Connecting X-rays with the optical
pp. 287-296(10)
Authors: Kargaltsev, Oleg; Pavlov, George

Studying millisecond pulsars in X-rays
pp. 297-307(11)
Author: Zavlin, Vyacheslav

X-ray observations of PSR B0355+54 and its pulsar wind nebula
pp. 309-316(8)
Authors: McGowan, Katherine; Vestrand, W.; Kennea, Jamie; Zane, Silvia; Cropper, Mark; Córdova, France

New phase-coherent measurements of pulsar braking indices
pp. 317-323(7)
Authors: Livingstone, Margaret; Kaspi, Victoria; Gavriil, Fotis; Manchester, Richard; Gotthelf, E.; Kuiper, Lucien

Thermal X-ray emission from hot polar cap in drifting subpulse pulsars
pp. 325-333(9)
Authors: Gil, Janusz; Melikidze, George; Zhang, Bing

The example of effective plasma acceleration in a magnetosphere
pp. 335-343(9)
Authors: Beskin, V.; Nokhrina, E.

Impact of neutron star oscillations on the accelerating electric field in the polar cap of pulsar: or could we see oscillations of the neutron star after the glitch in pulsar?
pp. 345-351(7)
Author: Timokhin, A.

Heat blanketing envelopes and thermal radiation of strongly magnetized neutron stars
pp. 353-361(9)
Authors: Potekhin, Alexander; Chabrier, Gilles; Yakovlev, Dmitry

Equation of state of neutron star cores and spin down of isolated pulsars
pp. 363-369(7)
Authors: Haensel, P.; Zdunik, J.

Equation of state constraints from neutron stars
pp. 371-379(9)
Author: Lattimer, James

Neutron star masses: dwarfs, giants and neighbors
pp. 381-385(5)
Authors: Popov, Sergei; Blaschke, David; Grigorian, Hovik; Prokhorov, Mikhail

A microscopic equation of state for protoneutron stars
pp. 387-394(8)
Authors: Burgio, G.; Baldo, M.; Nicotra, O.; Schulze, H.-J.

Modelling the dynamics of superfluid neutron stars
pp. 395-402(8)
Author: Andersson, N.

Cooling of neutron stars with strong toroidal magnetic fields
pp. 403-412(10)
Authors: Page, Dany; Geppert, Ulrich; Küker, Manfred

Internal heating and thermal emission from old neutron stars: Constraints on dense-matter and gravitational physics
pp. 413-418(6)
Authors: Reisenegger, Andreas; Fernández, Rodrigo; Jofré, Paula

Thermal emission areas of heated neutron star polar caps
pp. 419-422(4)
Authors: Ruderman, M.; Beloborodov, A.

Cooling of magnetars with internal layer heating
pp. 423-430(8)
Authors: Kaminker, A.; Yakovlev, D.; Potekhin, A.; Shibazaki, N.; Shternin, P.; Gnedin, O.

What do exotic equations of state have to offer?
pp. 431-434(4)
Author: Horvath, J.

Precession as a probe of the neutron star interior
pp. 435-441(7)
Author: Link, Bennett

Spin-one color superconductivity in compact stars?—an analysis within NJL-type models
pp. 443-450(8)
Author: Aguilera, D.

Exotic bulk viscosity and its influence on neutron star r-modes
pp. 451-455(5)
Authors: Chatterjee, Debarati; Bandyopadhyay, Debades

Nucleon superfluidity versus thermal states of isolated and transiently accreting neutron stars
pp. 457-465(9)
Authors: Levenfish, K.; Haensel, P.

The drift model of “magnetars”: Nature of AXPs, SGRs and radio pulsars with very long periods
pp. 467-469(3)
Authors: Malov, I.; Machabeli, G.

Importance of Compton scattering for radiation spectra of isolated neutron stars
pp. 471-475(5)
Authors: Suleimanov, Valery; Werner, Klaus

Search for fast optical activity of SGR 1806-20 at the SAO RAS 6-m telescope
pp. 477-479(3)
Authors: Beskin, G.; Debur, V.; Plokhotnichenko, V.; Karpov, S.; Biryukov, A.; Chmyreva, L.; Pozanenko, A.; Hurley, K.

Instabilities in rotating relativistic stars driven by viscosity
pp. 481-485(5)
Authors: Saijo, Motoyuki; Gourgoulhon, Eric

10 years of RXTE monitoring of anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61: long-term variability
pp. 487-491(5)
Authors: Dib, Rim; Kaspi, Victoria; Gavriil, Fotis

Exotic ion H ₃ ⁺⁺ in strong magnetic fields: Ground state and low-lying states
pp. 493-497(5)
Authors: López Vieyra, Juan; Turbiner, Alexander; Guevara, Nicolais

The ion H ₃ ⁺ in a strong magnetic field: Linear configuration
pp. 499-503(5)
Authors: López Vieyra, Juan; Turbiner, Alexander; Guevara, Nicolais

X-ray intensity-hardness correlation and deep IR observations of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1RXS J170849-400910
pp. 505-511(7)
Authors: Rea, N.; Israel, G.; Oosterbroek, T.; Campana, S.; Zane, S.; Turolla, R.; Testa, V.; Méndez, M.; Stella, L.

RX J1856.5-3754 as a possible strange star candidate
pp. 513-517(5)
Authors: Henderson, Jillian; Page, Dany

Chandra monitoring of the candidate anomalous X-ray pulsar AX J1845.0-0258
pp. 519-523(5)
Authors: Tam, Cindy; Kaspi, Victoria; Gaensler, Bryan; Gotthelf, Eric

Spin-down of young pulsars with a fallback disk
pp. 525-529(5)
Authors: Li, X.-D.; Jiang, Z.-B.

Search for radio pulsations in four anomalous X-ray pulsars and discovery of two new pulsars
pp. 531-534(4)
Authors: Burgay, Marta; Rea, Nanda; Israel, GianLuca; Possenti, Andrea; Burderi, Luciano; Di Salvo, Tiziana; D'Amico, Nichi; Stella, Luigi; Nichelli, Elisa

On the iron interpretation of the 6.4 keV emission line from SGR 1900+14
pp. 535-539(5)
Authors: Ibrahim, Alaa; Anwer, Hisham; Soliman, Mohamed; Mackie-Jones, Nicholas; Dhuga, Kalvir; Parke, William; Swank, Jean; Ukwatta, Tilan; Hussein, M.; El-Sherbini, T.

Mountains on neutron stars
pp. 541-543(3)
Author: Haskell, B.

Optical spectroscopy of the radio pulsar PSR B0656+14
pp. 545-549(5)
Authors: Zharikov, S.; Mennickent, R.; Shibanov, Yu.; Komarova, V.

On the peculiarities in the rotational frequency evolution of isolated neutron stars
pp. 551-555(5)
Authors: Biryukov, Anton; Beskin, Gregory; Karpov, Sergey

Gravitational waves from r-modes
pp. 557-561(5)
Authors: Sá, Paulo; Tomé, Brigitte

Giant pulses of pulsar radio emission
pp. 563-567(5)
Author: Kuzmin, A.

On the role of the current loss in radio pulsar evolution
pp. 569-573(5)
Authors: Beskin, V.; Nokhrina, E.

Force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator with differential rotation of open magnetic field lines
pp. 575-579(5)
Author: Timokhin, A.

Oscillations in the neutron star crust: Neutron star seismology from QPOs after flares
pp. 581-583(3)
Authors: Samuelsson, Lars; Andersson, Nils

Two decades of pulsar timing of Vela
pp. 585-589(5)
Authors: Dodson, Richard; Lewis, Dion; McCulloch, Peter

Slow glitches in the pulsar B1822-09
pp. 591-593(3)
Author: Shabanova, Tatiana

Short time scale pulse stability of the Crab pulsar in the optical band
pp. 595-599(5)
Authors: Karpov, S.; Beskin, G.; Biryukov, A.; Debur, V.; Plokhotnichenko, V.; Redfern, M.; Shearer, A.

Using XMM-Newton to measure the spectrum of the Vela pulsar and its phase variation
pp. 601-605(5)
Authors: Manzali, Armando; Luca, Andrea; Caraveo, Patrizia

A toy model for global magnetar oscillation: Implications for QPOs during magnetar flares
pp. 607-611(5)
Authors: Glampedakis, Kostas; Samuelsson, Lars; Andersson, Nils

Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars
pp. 613-617(5)
Authors: Aksenov, A.; Milgrom, M.; Usov, V.

The complex X-ray spectrum of the isolated neutron star RBS1223
pp. 619-623(5)
Authors: Schwope, Axel; Hambaryan, Valeri; Haberl, Frank; Motch, Christian

High frequency oscillations during magnetar flares: Evidence for neutron star vibrations
pp. 625-629(5)
Authors: Watts, Anna; Strohmayer, Tod

Magnetar corona
pp. 631-639(9)
Authors: Beloborodov, A.; Thompson, C.

Intrinsic spectra of the AXPs: De-extinction from model-independent measurement of interstellar column densities
pp. 641-645(5)
Author: Durant, Martin

The first multi-wavelength campaign of AXP 4U 0142+61 from radio to hard X-rays
pp. 647-653(7)
Authors: Hartog, P.; Kuiper, L.; Hermsen, W.; Rea, N.; Durant, M.; Stappers, B.; Kaspi, V.; Dib, R.