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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Color of Neutron Stars.
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Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 23:27:05 EST
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> 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.  
> 

It's probably true that most neutron stars have very intense magnetic
field densities, but probably NOT the result of compression of
the "ancestral" star state.  In fact, that ancestral field is swept 
away by the outward snow plow action of the outer plasma mantle 
of the star as the mantle is driven by the release of energy arising
from the "gravitational collapse of the inner core of the star.  
It is sort of an inverse inverse pinch.  The field of the collapsed 
star probably has its origin from unified field related processes 
which are not yet known, or well understood, but may well be mass 
density, star body spin and precession related.  I like crimson.
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