Modeling magnetic neutron stars: a short overview

Understand

Neutron stars are the endpoint of the life of intermediate mass stars and posses in their cores matter in the most extreme conditions in the universe.

• Besides their extremes of temperature (found in proto-neutron stars) and densities, typical neutron star' magnetic fields can easily reach trillions of times higher the one of the Sun.
• Among these stars, about $10\%$ are denominated \emph{magnetars} which possess even stronger surface magnetic fields of up to $10^{15}-10^{16}\,\mathrm{G}$.
• In this conference proceeding, we present a short review of the history and current literature regarding the modeling of magnetic neutron stars.