Special Monday seminar A new look at the Anomalous X ray Pulsars

We explore a possibility to model spin evolution of the Anomalous X ray Pulsars AXPs in terms of accretion by an isolated neutron star from a fossil non Keplerian magnetic disk We show that the observed spin down rates of the neutron stars can be explained within this scenario provided the surface magnetic field of the star is ranged within the interval 0 1 10 TG The X ray spectrum of the pulsars under these conditions is soft and fits well the observed spe