The Possible White Dwarf-Neutron Star Connection
Astrophysics
2016-11-03 v1
Abstract
The current status of the problem of whether neutron stars can form, in close binary systems, by accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of white dwarfs is examined. We find that, in principle, both initially cold C+O white dwarfs in the high-mass tail of their mass distribution in binaries and O+Ne+Mg white dwarfs can produce neutron stars. Which fractions of neutron stars in different types of binaries (or descendants from binaries) might originate from this process remains uncertain.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9701225,
title = {The Possible White Dwarf-Neutron Star Connection},
author = {R. Canal and J. Gutierrez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9701225},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages. To appear in "White Dwarfs", ed. J. Isern, M. Hernanz, and E. Garcia-Berro (Dordrecht: Kluwer)