by Maol » Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:35 am
As Neutrons have neutral charge, neither + nor -, how can a neutron star be magnetic, unless there is an external current entering at one pole and exiting the other, thereby creating positive and negative poles, much like an earthly solenoid winding.
The neutrons themselves are neutral charge, therefor rotation or no rotation, there can be no polarity. Not even sure neutrons can be a conductor.
....... snip ... edit..... disregard the above, it was just pondering anyway ...
I postulated the above before finding this
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=neutron+super ... fcm&ia=web so I see I have some schooling to catch up on. Anybody have any other suggestions or links to follow?
It still seems like there needs to be an external current source through the rotating mass of the star to jump start the generation of the magnetic field, unless there is sufficient mass of magnetic elements, ferrous or ?, to harbor residual magnetism like in the rotor of an automotive alternator which can self-excite itself to output current and power its own field winding without an external power source to initially excite the rotor field winding.
As Neutrons have neutral charge, neither + nor -, how can a neutron star be magnetic, unless there is an external current entering at one pole and exiting the other, thereby creating positive and negative poles, much like an earthly solenoid winding.
The neutrons themselves are neutral charge, therefor rotation or no rotation, there can be no polarity. Not even sure neutrons can be a conductor.
....... snip ... edit..... disregard the above, it was just pondering anyway ...
I postulated the above before finding this https://duckduckgo.com/?q=neutron+superconducting+vortex&t=ffcm&ia=web so I see I have some schooling to catch up on. Anybody have any other suggestions or links to follow?
It still seems like there needs to be an external current source through the rotating mass of the star to jump start the generation of the magnetic field, unless there is sufficient mass of magnetic elements, ferrous or ?, to harbor residual magnetism like in the rotor of an automotive alternator which can self-excite itself to output current and power its own field winding without an external power source to initially excite the rotor field winding.