Influence of Magnetic Field Decay on Electron Capture in Magnetars

Abstract

The de-excited energy of electron capture (EC) induced by magnetic field decay may be a new source for heating magnetar crust, so we do a quantitative calculation on the EC process near the outer crust and analyze their influence on persistent X-ray radiation of magnetars, adopting the experimental data or the results of theoretical model (including the large-scale shell model and quasi-particle random phase approximation).Comment: 3 pages; To be published in the special issue for Variability of Blazars: From Jansky to Fermi(VBJF) in Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysic