Eur. Phys. J. A (2011) 47: 56
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11056-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

A theoretical study of the magnetically deformed inner crust matter of magnetars

Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 741 235, India

Received: 7 December 2010
Accepted: 22 March 2011
Published online: 22 April 2011

Abstract

We have studied various physical properties of magnetically deformed atoms and the associated matter, replacing the atoms by the deformed Wigner-Seitz (WS) cells at the crustal region of strongly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars). A relativistic version of the Thomas-Fermi (TF) model in the presence of a strong magnetic field in cylindrical coordinates is used to study the properties of such matter.