{
  "id": "0904.4268",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-04-27T22:06:00.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-04-27T22:06:00.000Z",
  "title": "Observational Consequences of Topological Currents in Neutron Stars",
  "authors": [
    "James Charbonneau"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, prepared for the proceedings of the the 24th Lake Louise Winter Institute",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We argue that topological vector currents may be the source of many phenomena in neutron stars: kicks, jets, toroidal fields and magnetic helicity. Topological vector currents exist because of the P-symmetry violation of the weak interaction. Kicks and helicity are both objects that transform as pseudovectors and thus require P-symmetry violation to manifest themselves. This symmetry argument is supported numerically; topological currents provide transfer enough momentum to describe even the largest of kicks and can generate large toroidal fields that create helicity. An observational signature of currents is a faint left circular polarization in the X-rays in the wake of the neutron star that may require high precision polarimetry to see.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-04-27T22:06:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "neutron star",
      "topological currents",
      "observational consequences",
      "topological vector currents",
      "faint left circular polarization"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 818886,
      "adsabs": "2009arXiv0904.4268C"
    }
  }
}