Summary This paper reviews observational evidence concerning the existence of so-calledbasal heating that occurs in the outer atmospheres of all stars with convective envelopes. Effects of basal heating depend primarily on the effective temperature, [...]
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Summary The number of Galactic neutron stars is significant, N ~ 108–9, but radiation from their surfaces is hard to detect. The nearest isolated neutron stars could be as close as ~ 10 pc (the estimate sensitively depends on assumptions about [...] |
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