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Probing the Accretion Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs in Millisecond Pulsars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-01-04 v1

Abstract

This paper investigates the progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) with a distribution of long orbital periods (P_orb > 2 d), to show the link between white dwarf (WD) binaries and long orbits for some binary MSPs through the Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of a WD. For this purpose, a model is presented to turn binary MSPs into wide binaries and highly circular orbits (e < 0.1) through the asymmetric kick imparted to the pulsar during the AIC process, which may indicate a sizeable kick velocity along the rotation of the proto-neutron star. The results show the effects of shock wave, binding energy, and mass loss (0.2M_sun). The model shows the pulsar systems are relevant to AIC-candidates.

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@article{arxiv.1901.00547,
  title  = {Probing the Accretion Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs in Millisecond Pulsars},
  author = {Ali Taani and Awni Khasawneh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00547},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series