Pulsar Kicks from Majoron Emission
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We show that Majoron emission from a hot nascent neutron star can be anisotropic in the presence of a strong magnetic field. If Majorons carry a non-negligible fraction of the supernova energy, the resulting recoil velocity of a neutron star can explain the observed velocities of pulsars.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0502150,
title = {Pulsar Kicks from Majoron Emission},
author = {Y. Farzan and G. Gelmini and A. Kusenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0502150},
year = {2008}
}
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