Detalles de publicación
PP 023092
Isolated Neutron Stars
1) Instituto de Astrofı́sica de Canarias, E-38205 La Laguna, Spain;
2) Departamento de Astrofı́sica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38206 La Laguna Spain;
3) Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans s/n,E-08193, Barcelona, Spain;
3) Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia, Palazzo del Broletto, piazza della Vittoria 15, I-27100, Pavia, Italy;
4) INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, via A. Corti 12,
I-20133, Milano, Italy.
Non-accreting neutron stars display diverse characteristics, leading us to classify them into several groups. This chapter is an observational driven review in which we survey the properties of the different classes of isolated neutron stars: from the 'normal' rotation-powered pulsars, to magnetars, the most magnetic neutron stars in the Universe we know of; from central compact objects (sometimes called also anti-magnetars) in supernova remnants, to the X-ray dim isolated neutron stars. We also highlight a few sources that have exhibited features straddling those of different sub-groups, blurring the apparent diversity of the neutron star zoo and pointing to a gran unification.