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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Color of Neutron Stars.
Message-ID: <1218@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 18:25:20 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1218
Posted: Sat Apr  6 18:25:20 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 05:30:26 EST
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Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <1523@decwrl.UUCP> cooper@pbsvax.DEC (Topher Cooper) writes:
>It was speculated that that matter would be mostly or wholly
>iron (the trough in the curve of binding energy).  It would
>be expected that the "typical" neutron star would have a
>very intense magnetic field, a result of compression of the
>"ancestral" stars ordinary magnetic field.  This field would
>be expected to be intense enough to cause the iron from the
>surface to form into "hairs" similar to the lines of iron
>filings formed with a bar magnet.
>  <..>
>		Topher Cooper

would this not then imply (because of the extremely rough surface) that
the star would radiate as an almost perfect black body?  an outside
observer would see (ignoring many things such as atmosphere) a
redshifted black body at the temprature of the surface.

Herb Chong...

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