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We present an analytical method for studying the changes of the orbital characteristics of binary systems with circular orbits due to a kick velocity imparted to the newborn neutron star during a supernova explosion (SN). Assuming a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Vassiliki Kalogera

Multiple pieces of evidence suggest that neutron stars receive large kicks when formed from the remnant of a collapsing star. However, the evidence for whether black holes (BH) receive natal kicks is less clear, reliant on weak constraints…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Jeff J. Andrews , Vicky Kalogera

In a cosmological setting, the disc of a galaxy is expected to continuously experience gravitational torques and perturbations from a variety of sources, which can cause the disc to wobble, flare and warp. Specifically, the study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-19 E. Poggio , R. Drimmel , R. Andrae , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Fouesneau , M. G. Lattanzi , R. L. Smart , A. Spagna

Observations of binary pulsars and pulsars in globular clusters suggest that at least some pulsars must receive weak natal kicks at birth. If all pulsars received strong natal kicks above \unit[50]{\kms}, those born in globular clusters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Reinhold Willcox , Ilya Mandel , Eric Thrane , Adam Deller , Simon Stevenson , Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

We propose that the bimodal nature of the kick velocity distribution of radio pulsars is connected with the dichotomy between hadronic stars ({\it i.e.} neutron stars with no quark matter content) and quark stars. Bimodality can appear due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Bombaci , S. B. Popov

Within disk galaxies, the velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, of stars increases with age, $\tau$, as measured in the Milky Way (MW) and nearby galaxies. This relation provides a key window into galactic formation history, tracing both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-16 Fiona McCluskey , Andrew Wetzel , Sarah Loebman , Jorge Moreno

We employ population synthesis method to model the double neutron star (DNS) population and test various possibilities on natal kick velocities gained by neutron stars after their formation. We first choose natal kicks after standard core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Martyna Chruslinska , Krzysztof Belczynski , Tomasz Bulik , Wojciech Gladysz

Using stellar kinematic data from Gaia DR3, we revisit constraints on black hole (BH) natal kicks from observed accreting and detached BH binaries. We compare the space velocities and Galactic orbits of a sample of 12 BHs in the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Pranav Nagarajan , Kareem El-Badry

The conservation of stellar actions is a fundamental assumption in orbit reconstruction studies in the Milky Way. However, the disc is highly dynamic, with time-dependent, non-axisymmetric features like transient spiral arms and giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Arunima Arunima , Mark Krumholz , Michael Ireland , Chuhan Zhang , Zipeng Hu

We perform analysis of the three-dimensional kinematics of Milky Way disk stars in mono-age populations. We focus on stars between Galactocentric distances of $R=6$ and 14 \,kpc, selected from the combined LAMOST DR4 red clump giant stars…

In this paper we investigate the space and velocity distributions of old neutron stars (aged 109 to 1010 yr) in our Galaxy. Galactic old Neutron Stars (NSs) population fills a torus-like area extending to a few tens kiloparsecs above the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-17 Ali Taani , Luca Naso , Yingchun Wei , Chengmin Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

Supernova explosions are inherently asymmetric and can accelerate new-born neutron stars (NSs) to hundreds of km/s. Two prevailing theories to explain NS kicks are ejecta asymmetries (e.g., conservation of momentum between NS and ejecta)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Tyler Holland-Ashford , Laura A. Lopez , Katie Auchettl , Tea Temim , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We produce synthetic populations of pulsars within our Galaxy and calculate the resulting scale heights as well as the radial and space velocity distributions of the pulsars. Results are presented for isolated pulsars, binary pulsars and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley

We study the dynamics and evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster performing a high resolution direct one-million-body simulation. Focusing on the interactions between such stellar system and the central supermassive black hole, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-21 Taras Panamarev , Andreas Just , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik , Long Wang , Manuel Arca Sedda

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 $<$ $R$ $<$ 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize the median, dispersion and skewness of the distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Yaqian Wu , Maosheng Xiang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Chengdong Li , Yaguang Li , Yang Huang

In order to understand the orbital history of Galactic halo objects, such as globular clusters, authors usually assume a static potential for our Galaxy with parameters that appear at the present-day. According to the standard paradigm of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Hosein Haghi , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Saeed Taghavi

We consider the process of stellar binaries tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole. For highly eccentric orbits, as one star is ejected from the three-body system, the companion remains bound to the black hole. Hypervelocity stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Elena M. Rossi , Shiho Kobayashi , Re'em Sari

Understanding the natal kicks received by neutron stars (NSs) during formation is a critical component of modelling the evolution of massive binaries. Natal kicks are an integral input parameter for population synthesis codes, and have…

We study the anisotropic neutrino emission from the core of neutron stars induced by the star's magnetic field. We model the core as made out of a magnetized ideal gas of strange quark matter and implement the conditions for stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Alejandro Ayala , D. Manreza Paret , A. Pérez Martínez , Gabriella Piccinelli , Angel Sánchez , Jorge S. Ruíz Montaño

Observations of white dwarfs in the globular clusters NGC 6397 and Omega Centauri indicate that these stars may get a velocity kick during their time as giants. If the mass loss while on the asymptotic giant branch is slightly asymmetric,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeremy S. Heyl , Matthew Penrice
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