Pulsar kicks from neutrino oscillations
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Neutrino oscillations can explain the observed motion of pulsars. We show that two different models of neutrino emission from a cooling neutron star are in good quantitative agreement and predict the same order of magnitude for the pulsar kick velocity, consistent with the data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9811144,
title = {Pulsar kicks from neutrino oscillations},
author = {Alexander Kusenko and Gino Segre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9811144},
year = {2008}
}
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