Sinking of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star

Wette, Karl; Vigelius, M; Melatos, Andrew

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Sinking of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star

Date

2010

Authors

Wette, Karl

Vigelius, M

Melatos, Andrew

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We perform ideal-magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric simulations of magnetically confined mountains on an accreting neutron star, with masses ≲0.12 M⊙. We consider two scenarios, in which the mountain sits atop a hard surface or sinks into a soft, fluid