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Spin Period Evolution of Recycled Pulsar in Accreting Binary

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

We investigate the spin-period evolutions of recycled pulsars in binary accreting systems. Taking both the accretion induced field decay and spin-up into consideration, we calculate their spin-period evolutions influenced by the initial magnetic-field strengths, initial spin-periods and accretion rates, respectively. The results indicate that the minimum spin-period (or maximum spin frequency) of millisecond pulsar (MSP) is independent of the initial conditions and accretion rate when the neutron star (NS) accretes >0.2\ms\sim> 0.2\ms. The accretion torque with the fastness parameter and gravitational wave (GW) radiation torque may be responsible for the formation of the minimum spin-period (maximum spin frequency). The fastest spin frequency (716 Hz) of MSP can be inferred to associate with a critical fastness parameter about ωc=0.55\omega_{c}=0.55. Furthermore, the comparisons with the observational data are presented in the field-period (BPB-P) diagram.

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@article{arxiv.1011.5013,
  title  = {Spin Period Evolution of Recycled Pulsar in Accreting Binary},
  author = {J. Wang and C. M. Zhang and Y. H. Zhao and Y. Kojima and H. X. Yin and L. M. SOng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5013},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 figs, accepted by A\& A 2010