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Evidence against field decay proportional to accreted mass in neutron stars

Author(s) -

R. A. M. J. Wijers

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

monthly notices of the royal astronomical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058

H-Index - 383

eISSN - 1365-8711

pISSN - 0035-8711

DOI - 10.1093/mnras/287.3.607

Subject(s) - physics , neutron star , pulsar , white dwarf , astrophysics , accretion (finance) , star (game theory) , millisecond pulsar , field (mathematics) , magnetic field , stars , astronomy , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics

A specific class of pulsar recycling model, in which magnetic-field decreaseis a function only of the amount of mass accreted onto the neutron star, isexamined in detail. It is shown that no model in this class is consistent withall available data on X-ray binaries and recycled pulsars. Only if allconstraints are stretched to their limit and a few objects (PSR B1831-00 and 4U1626-67) are assumed to have formed in a non-standard manner is there still anacceptable model of this kind left. Improved measurements of the parameters ofa few of the oldest known radio pulsars will soon test and probably rule outthat one as well. Evidence for the origin of PSR B1831-00 via accretion-inducedcollapse of a white dwarf is called into question as a result.Comment: 8 pages LaTeX with 5 in-text postscript figures. Improvements from previous version include extended and improved discussion and one extra figure. MNRAS, accepted 02-Jan-9

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