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Using the StarTrack binary population synthesis code we model the population of double neutron stars in the Galaxy. We include a detailed treatment of the spin evolution of each pulsar due to processes such as spin-down and spin-up during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-15 S. Oslowski , T. Bulik , D. Gondek-Rosinska , K. Belczynski

We present preliminary results of a pulsar population synthesis of normal pulsars from the Galactic disk using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to better understand the parameter space of the assumed model. We use the Kuiper test, similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-27 Peter L. Gonthier , Caleb D. Billman , Alice K. Harding

We revisit the population synthesis of isolated radio-pulsars incorporating recent advances on the evolution of the magnetic field and the angle between the magnetic and rotational axes from new simulations of the magneto-thermal evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-27 Miguel Gullón , Juan A. Miralles , Daniele Viganò , José A. Pons

Ray tracing algorithms that compute pulse profiles from rotating neutron stars are essential tools for constraining neutron-star properties with data from missions such as NICER. However, the high computational cost of these simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Preston G. Waldrop , Dimitrios Psaltis , Tong Zhao

We present a simulation-based inference (SBI) framework to constrain the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) from astrophysical observations of masses, radii and tidal deformabilities, using Neural posterior estimation (NPE) with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Valéria Carvalho , Márcio Ferreira , Michał Bejger , Constança Providência

We present a population synthesis model for normal radio pulsars in the Galaxy incorporating the latest developments in the field and the magnetorotational evolution processes. Our model considers spin-down with a force-free magnetosphere…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Zhihong Shi , C. -Y. Ng

Population synthesis modeling of the observed dynamical and physical properties of a population is a highly effective method for constraining the underlying birth parameters and evolutionary tracks. In this work, we apply a population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Mattéo Sautron , Alexander Eli McEwen , George Younes , Jérôme Pétri , Paz Beniamini , Daniela Huppenkothen

Using neural networks, we integrate the ability to account for Doppler smearing due to a pulsar's orbital motion with the pulsar population synthesis package \psrpoppy\ to develop accurate modeling of the observed binary pulsar population.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Nihan Pol , Maura McLaughlin , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathan Garver-Daniels

We have implemented prescriptions for modelling pulsars in the rapid binary population synthesis code COMPAS. We perform a detailed analysis of the double neutron star (DNS) population, accounting for radio survey selection effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Debatri Chattopadhyay , Simon Stevenson , Jarrod R. Hurley , Luca J. Rossi , Chris Flynn

The known population of non-accreting neutron stars is ever growing and currently consists of more than 3500 sources. Pulsar surveys with the SKAO telescopes will greatly increase the known population, adding radio pulsars to every subgroup…

Statistical inference of population parameters of astrophysical sources is challenging. It requires accounting for selection effects, which stem from the artificial separation between bright detected and dim undetected sources that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-10 Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

Binary population synthesis simulations allow detailed modelling of gravitational-wave sources from a variety of formation channels. These population models can be compared to the observed catalogue of merging binaries to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Storm Colloms , Christopher P L Berry , John Veitch , Michael Zevin

The existence of neutron stars was not confirmed until the discovery of pulsars at radio wavelengths in late 1960s. Since then, these highly compact and magnetized objects have been observed across the electromagnetic spectrum, and widely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Hao Ding

New results based on methods of population synthesis, concerning magnetic field effects on the evolution of pulsars are reported. The present study confirms that models with timescales for the magnetic field decay longer than the pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Regimbau , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

We have investigated the evolutionary connections of the isolated neutron star (NS) populations including radio pulsars (RPs), anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma repeaters (SGRs), dim isolated NSs (XDINs), ``high-magnetic-field''…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Ali Arda Gencali , Unal Ertan

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, emitting in a broad electromagnetic energy range. Reproducing the observed pulsars population refines our understanding of their formation and evolution scenarios as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Mattéo Sautron , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra , Ludmilla Dirson

We use data from the MeerTime project on the MeerKAT telescope to ask whether the radio emission properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and slowly rotating, younger pulsars (SPs) are similar or different. We show that the flux density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , B. Posselt , L. S. Oswald , M. Kramer , P. Weltevrede

We present a Bayesian method to constrain the masses and radii of neutron stars (NSs) using the information encoded in the X-ray pulse profiles of accreting millisecond pulsars. We model the shape of the pulses using "oblate Schwarzschild"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Salmi , J. Nättilä , J. Poutanen

X-ray polarization observations of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) provide crucial insights into magnetic field structures and particle acceleration mechanisms. While the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has made significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Kuan Liu , Fei Xie , Ming-Yu Ge , Wei Deng , En-Wei Liang

Accounting for selection effects in supernova type Ia (SN Ia) cosmology is crucial for unbiased cosmological parameter inference -- even more so for the next generation of large, mostly photometric-only surveys. The conventional "bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Konstantin Karchev , Roberto Trotta