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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

The properties of the entire neutron star population can be inferred by modeling their evolution, from birth to the present, through pulsar population synthesis. This involves simulating a mock population, applying observational filters,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Celsa Pardo Araujo , Michele Ronchi , Vanessa Graber , Nanda Rea

Aims. We estimate the number of pulsars, detectable as continuous gravitational wave sources with the current and future gravitational-wave detectors, assuming a simple phenomenological model of evolving non-axisymmetry of the rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Marek Cieślar , Tomasz Bulik , Małgorzata Curyło , Magdalena Sieniawska , Neha Singh , Michał Bejger

Neutron stars provide a powerful probe of axion dark matter, especially in higher frequency ranges where there remain fewer laboratory constraints. Populations of neutron stars near the Galactic Centre have been proposed as a means to place…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 U. Bhura , R. A. Battye , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

The population of young, non-recycled pulsars with spin down energies Edot >10^35 erg/s is sampled predominantly at gamma-ray and radio wavelengths. A total of 137 such pulsars are known, with partial overlap between the sources detectable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Simon Johnston , D. A. Smith , A. Karastergiou , M. Kramer

We explore the hypothesis that the magnetic fields of neutron stars are of fossil origin. For parametrised models of the distribution of magnetic flux on the Main Sequence and of the birth spin period of the neutron stars, we calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lilia Ferrario , Dayal Wickramasinghe

Binary populations in young star clusters show multiplicity fractions both lower and up to twice as high as those observed in the Galactic field. We follow the evolution of a population of binary stars in dense and loose star clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael Marks , Pavel Kroupa

We present results of a population synthesis of millisecond pulsars from the Galactic disk. Excluding globular clusters, we model the spatial distribution of millisecond pulsars by assuming their birth in the Galactic disk with a random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sarah A. Story , Peter L. Gonthier , Alice K. Harding

Pulsars orbiting the Galactic center black hole, Sgr A*, would be potential probes of its mass, distance and spin, and may even be used to test general relativity. Despite predictions of large populations of both ordinary and millisecond…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-20 Jason Dexter , Ryan M. O'Leary

X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide direct constraints on the properties of individual AGNs, such as their emission, obscuration, and accretion rate. Previous AGN population synthesis models have not addressed such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 D. Gerolymatou , S. Paltani , C. Ricci , T. T. Ananna

Context. Recent Chandra observations of the Galactic center region (GCR) have uncovered a population of faint discrete X-ray sources. A few theoretical works have been made to investigate the nature of these sources. Aims. We examine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. W. Liu , X. D. Li

Galactic binary neutron stars (BNSs) are a unique laboratory to probe the evolution of BNSs and their progenitors. Here, we use a new version of the population synthesis code SEVN to evolve the population of Galactic BNSs, by modeling the…

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of ordinary isolated and millisecond pulsars in the Galactic plane. Over the past several years, a program has been developed to simulate pulsar birth, evolution and emission using Monte…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter L. Gonthier , Sarah A. Story , Brian D. Clow , Alice K. Harding

Robust age measurements for isolated neutron stars (NSs) are not easily available. That is why, often the characteristic age $\tau_\mathrm{ch}=P/2\dot P$ is used as a proxy. Here $P$ is the spin period of the NS and $\dot P$ is the time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Rostislav D. Nikandrov , Sergei B. Popov

Magnetars are isolated young neutron stars characterized by the most intense magnetic fields known in the universe. The origin of their magnetic field is still a challenging question. In situ magnetic field amplification by dynamo action is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 P. Barrère , J. Guilet , A. Reboul-Salze , R. Raynaud , H. -T. Janka

(abridged) We present the first study that combines binary population synthesis in the Galactic disk and detailed evolutionary calculations of low- and intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (L/IMXBs). We show that the formation probability of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Pfahl , S. Rappaport , Ph. Podsiadlowski

We explore the prompt magnetar progenitor scenario in the context of fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies demographics and offset distributions. Magnetars are neutron stars with strong magnetic fields on the order of $10^{15}$ G with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , J. Xavier Prochaska , Kasper E. Heintz , Wen-fai Fong

Magnetars are young and highly magnetized neutron stars which display a wide array of X-ray activity including short bursts, large outbursts, giant flares and quasi-periodic oscillations, often coupled with interesting timing behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Victoria M. Kaspi , Andrei Beloborodov

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of normal pulsars from the Galactic disk using our previously developed Monte-Carlo code. From our studies of observed radio pulsars that have clearly identifiable core and cone…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Peter L. Gonthier , Erin Nagelkirk , Melanie Stam , Alice K. Harding

We seek to quantify the fidelity with which modern population syntheses reproduce observations in view of their use as predictive tools. We compared synthetic populations from the Generation 3 Bern Model of Planet Formation and Evolution…