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Assuming the wind-fed accretion magnetars in long period X-ray pulsars, we calculated the rotational evolution of the neutron stars. Our calculations considered the effects of the magnetic field decay in magnetars. The results show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Wei Wang , Hao Tong

In continuation of our earlier work on the long-term evolution of the so-called high--B radio pulsars (HBRPs) with measured braking indices, we have investigated the long-term evolution of the remaining five HBRPs for which braking indices…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-19 Onur Benli , Unal Ertan

We have conducted a systematic survey for the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Currently, there are 47 MSPs with confirmed X-ray detections. We have also placed the upper limits for the X-ray emission from the other 36 MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , K. S. Cheng

The evolution of neutron star (NS) magnetic field (B-field) has long been an important topic, which is still not yet settled down. Here, we analyze the NS B-fields inferred by the cyclotron resonance scattering features (CRSFs) for the high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-15 Chang-Qing Ye , De-Hua Wang , Cheng-Min Zhang , Zhen-Qi Diao

The mass function of neutron stars (NSs) contains information about the late evolution of massive stars, the supernova explosion mechanism, and the equation-of-state of cold, nuclear matter beyond the nuclear saturation density. A number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-06 John Antoniadis , Thomas M. Tauris , Feryal Ozel , Ewan Barr , David J. Champion , Paulo C. C. Freire

We study the current sample of rapidly rotating neutron stars in both accreting and non-accreting binaries in order to determine whether the spin distribution of accreting neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries can be reconciled with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 A. Patruno , B. Haskell , N. Andersson

We present results of a binary population synthesis study on the orbital period distribution of wide binary millisecond pulsars forming through four evolutionary channels. In three of the channels, the progenitor of the millisecond pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Willems , U. Kolb

We have performed a systematic study of the rotational, orbital and X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in globular clusters (GCs) and compared their nature with those of the MSPs in the Galactic field (GF). We found that GC MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Kwan-Lok Li , K. S. Cheng

A millisecond pulsar (MSP) is an old neutron star (NS) that has accreted material from its companion star, causing it to spin up, which is known as the recycling scenario. During the mass transfer phase, the system manifests itself as an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-16 Shunyi Lan , Xiangcun Meng

Orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars' formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects. Advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters accurately in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Manjari Bagchi

Despite considerable evidence verifying that millisecond pulsars are spun up through sustained accretion in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), it has proven surprisingly difficult to actually detect millisecond X-ray pulsars in LMXBs. There…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Deepto Chakrabarty

We have conducted a search for pulsar companions to 15 low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs; M < 0.4 M_Sun) at 820 MHz with the NRAO Green Bank Telescope (GBT). These LMWDs were spectroscopically identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Marcel A. Agueros , Fernando Camilo , Nicole M. Silvestri , S. J. Kleinman , Scott F. Anderson , James W. Liebert

With recent advances in the sensitivity of radio surveys of the Galactic disk, the number of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) has increased substantially in recent years such that it is now possible to study their demographic properties in more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Kshitij Aggarwal , Duncan. R. Lorimer

Observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at low radio frequencies play an important role in understanding the Galactic pulsar population and characterising both their emission properties and the effects of the ionised interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 C. P. Lee , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney , W. van Straten , C. M. Tan , M. Xue , N. A. Swainston , S. M. Ord , G. Sleap , S. E. Tremblay , A. Williams

We use the evolutionary population synthesis method to investigate the statistical properties of the wind-fed neutron star (NS) compact ($P_{\rm orb}<10$ days) high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in our Galaxy, based on different spin-down…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Hai-Lang Dai , Xi-Wei Liu , Xiang-Dong Li

We have investigated the relation between the orbital periods ($\pb$) and the spin periods ($\ps$) of wind-fed X-ray pulsars in high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), based on population synthesis calculations of the spin evolution of neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hai-Lang Dai , Xi-Wei Liu , Xiang-Dong Li

(Abridged) We infer the velocity distribution of radio pulsars by modelling their birth, evolution, and detection in large-scale 0.4 GHz pulsar surveys, and by comparing model distributions of measurable pulsar properties with survey data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Z. Arzoumanian , D. F. Chernoff , J. M. Cordes

The recent fast growth of a population of millisecond pulsars with precisely measured mass provides an excellent opportunity to characterize these compact stars at an unprecedented level. This is because the stellar parameter values can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-16 Sudip Bhattacharyya , Ignazio Bombaci , Debades Bandyopadhyay , Arun V. Thampan , Domenico Logoteta

We present timing and orbital phase-resolved polarimetry of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) J2101$-$4802, having a spin period of 9.48~ms and dispersion measure (DM) $25.05\ \mathrm{pc\ cm^{-3}}$ discovered with the Giant Meter Radio Telescope…

Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources through stellar evolution coupled to stellar dynamics. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio
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