Statistics of magnetic noise in neutron star crusts

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jun 3;88(22):221101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.221101. Epub 2002 May 16.

Abstract

The neutron star crust magnetodynamics is demonstrated to exhibit erratic jumps at the fields corresponding to a sharp change of nuclide magnetic moments induced by quantization effects. Such a noise originates from magnetic avalanches and shows intensity and statistical properties which are favorably compared to the burst activity of soft gamma repeaters.