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I. A. Kondratyev

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Wave propagation and transformation in the frame of magnetohydrodynamics with a vortex electric field

Bright transient objects in different wave bands have been discovered in recent years. To explain these short (from ms to s), and very powerful events different models, galactic and extragalactic, have been considered. One of popular model is based on the suggestion of transformation of the magnetized plasma blob, presumably a MHD shock wave, moving with relativistic speed, into electromagnetic pulse after collision with some obstacle, or at entering in media with different properties. Such transformation cannot be described in the frame of classical MHD equations, which don't contain the displacement current, and don't include such transformation. Updating of the classic MHD equations by using of full set of Maxwell equation with displacement current, made recently by several authors, gave a possibility to describe hydrodynamic phenomena, together with electromagnetic ones by the same set of equations. Here we apply these equations for study of propagation of different waves with account of displacement current, and of transformation between different kind of waves in the nonuniform media. We derive a dispersion equation describing a propagation of a weak linear wave in a uniform magnetized plasma, and consider in details the cases with perpendicular and parallel motion to the magnetic field. It contains MHD, HD, Alfven and EM waves in the limiting cases, and some new types of behaviour in a general situation. We consider a plasma with zero viscosity and heat conductivity, with a finite scalar electric conductivity. We have shown, that transformation of MHD into EM wave may happen only in a highly magnetized plasma, and have found the region of parameters, where no waves exist, and only damping static perturbations may be present.

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3D numerical study of an anisotropic heat transfer in outer layers of magnetized neutron stars

Periodic changes in a thermal soft X-ray flux of a rotating neutron star indicate a non-uniform distribution of the surface temperature. A possible cause of this phenomenon is a suppression of the heat flux across the magnetic field lines in a crust and an envelope of magnetized neutron stars. In this paper we study three-dimensional effects, associated with non-axisymmetric magnetic fields in neutron stars. We calculate the surface temperature distribution by solving numerically a three dimensional heat transfer equation in a magnetized neutron star crust. We adopt an anisotropic (tensorial) electron thermal conductivity coefficient, which is derived as an analytical solution of the Boltzmann equation with a Chapman-Enskog method. To calculate the surface temperature distribution, we construct a local one-dimensional plane-parallel model ("Ts-Tb"-relationship) of a magnetized neutron star envelope. We then use it as an outer boundary condition for the three-dimensional problem in the crust to find the self-consistent solution. To study possible observational manifestations from anisotropic temperature distributions we calculate light curves with a composite black-body model. Our calculations show, that a non-axisymmetric magnetic field distribution can lead to the irregular non-sinusoidal shape of a pulse profile as well as in some cases a significant amplification of pulsations of the thermal flux in comparison to the pure-dipolar magnetic field configurations.

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