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Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars in X-Ray Binaries

Mereghetti, Sandro; Revnivtsev, Mikhail

A substantial fraction of the known neutron stars resides in X-ray binaries—systems in which one compact object accretes matter from a companion star. Neutron stars in X-ray binaries have magnetic fields among the highest found in the Universe, spanning at least the range from ∼10⁸ to several 10¹³ G. The magnetospheres around…