Sinking of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star
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Wette, Karl
Vigelius, M
Melatos, Andrew
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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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
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society