Neutron Stars: Outflows and Inflows

中子星：流出和流入。中子星（NS）是一种超密集、超磁化的恒星尸体。我将研究孤立的NS的带电粒子风如何与其环境相互作用，这是由最近的超新星遗迹高分辨率成像所激发的。由于第一代干涉引力波望远镜即将投入使用，我还将研究吸积气体如何掩盖双子星的磁场。这项工作将极大地提高我们对NS电动力学、蟹状星云和毫秒脉冲星射电辐射的理解，并对x射线毫秒脉冲星的可探测引力波水平做出一种新的、可量化的预测。

Neutron Stars: Outflows and Inflows. A neutron star (NS) is an ultradense, ultramagnetised stellar corpse. I will study how the charged-particle wind of an isolated NS interacts with its environment, motivated by recent high-resolution imaging of supernova remnants. I will also study how accreting gas buries the magnetic field of a binary NS, motivated by the imminent commissioning of the first generation of interferometric gravitational wave telescopes. The work will greatly improve our understanding of NS electrodynamics, the Crab nebula, and the radio emission from millisecond pulsars, and makes a novel, quantifiable prediction of detectable levels of gravitational waves from X-ray millisecond pulsars.