scholarly journals The death line of millisecond pulsars

1996 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Claes-Ingvar Björnsson
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass

AbstractThe distribution of millisecond pulsars, just as normal pulsars, is affected by a death line. Since a large fraction of millisecond pulsars lie close to the derived death line, a significant number of neutron stars may exist which are not observed as millisecond pulsars. This makes the birth rate discrepancy between millisecond pulsars and their assumed low mass x-ray binary progenitors more acute.

scholarly journals Super-Eddington Accretion in the Formation of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Millisecond Pulsars

1997 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 828-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Webbink ◽  
V. Kalogera
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Mass Transfer Rate ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Orbital Periods ◽  
X Ray Binaries

AbstractConsiderations of donor star stability, age, and mass transfer rate show that low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars with orbital periods longer than a few days must have survived an initial phase of super-Eddington mass transfer. We review the physical arguments leading to this conclusion, and examine its implications for the apparent discrepancy between the death rate for low-mass X-ray binaries and the birth rate of binary millisecond pulsars.

scholarly journals A decade of transitional millisecond pulsars

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (S337) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amruta Jaodand ◽  
Jason W. T. Hessels ◽  
Anne Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Millisecond Pulsar ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Recycling Process ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
System A ◽  
Multi Wavelength ◽  
Low Mass

AbstractTransitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs), which are systems that harbor a pulsar in the throes of the recycling process, have emerged as a new source class since the discovery of the first such system a decade ago. These systems switch between accretion-powered low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) and rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsar (RMSP) states, and provide exciting avenues to understand the physical processes that spin-up neutron stars to millisecond periods. During the last decade, three tMSPs, as well as a candidate source, have been extensively probed using systematic, multi-wavelength campaigns. Here we review the observational highlights from these campaigns and our general understanding of tMSPs.

scholarly journals Formation of Binary and Millisecond Pulsars: Puzzles and Possible Solutions

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S291) ◽  
pp. 499-501
Author(s):  
Yong Shao ◽  
Xiang-Dong Li
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Brown Dwarf ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Common Envelope ◽  
Binary Pulsars ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
X Ray Binaries

AbstractWe present a systematic study of the evolution of intermediate- and low-mass X-ray binaries. Our calculations suggest that millisecond binary pulsars in wide orbits might have neutron stars born massive, or been formed through mass transfer driven by planet/brown dwarf-involved common envelope evolution.

scholarly journals Search for intermittent X-ray pulsations from neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunus Emre Bahar ◽  
Manoneeta Chakraborty ◽  
Ersin Göğüş
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Orbital Period ◽  
Oscillation Frequency ◽  
Orbital Motion ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Corrected Data ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
X Ray Binaries

Abstract We present the results of our extensive binary orbital motion corrected pulsation search for 13 low-mass X-ray binaries. These selected sources exhibit burst oscillations in X-rays with frequencies ranging from 45 to 1 122 Hz and have a binary orbital period varying from 2.1 to 18.9 h. We first determined episodes that contain weak pulsations around the burst oscillation frequency by searching all archival Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data of these sources. Then, we applied Doppler corrections to these pulsation episodes to discard the smearing effect of the binary orbital motion and searched for recovered pulsations at the second stage. Here we report 75 pulsation episodes that contain weak but coherent pulsations around the burst oscillation frequency. Furthermore, we report eight new episodes that show relatively strong pulsations in the binary orbital motion corrected data.

scholarly journals The Equation of State and Some Key Parameters of Neutron Stars: Constraints from GW170817, the Nuclear Data, and the Low-mass X-Ray Binary Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 885 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Liang Jiang ◽  
Shao-Peng Tang ◽  
Dong-Sheng Shao ◽  
Ming-Zhe Han ◽  
Yin-Jie Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Binary Data ◽  
Nuclear Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass

scholarly journals X-ray Emission Characteristics of Pulsars

2000 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
W. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Star ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Emission Characteristics ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Emission Properties ◽  
Important Progress

Recent X-ray observatories such as ROSAT, ASCA, RXTE, BeppoSAX, and Chandra have achieved important progress in neutron star and pulsar astronomy. The identification of Geminga as a rotation-powered pulsar, the discovery of X-ray emission from millisecond pulsars, and the identification of cooling neutron stars are only a few of the fascinating results. In the following, I will give a brief review on the X-ray emission properties of rotation-powered pulsars and their wind nebulae.

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