Ballooning instability in polar caps of accreting neutron stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 553, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 788-795

  Litwin, C ^a   Brown, Edward F ^a   Rosner, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Instabilities; MHD; Pulsars: general; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035373568     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320952     Document Type: Article

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