Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-03-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages with 7 Figures. Tarred, gzipped, uuencoded LaTeX file. Complete Figures available at http://mercury.es.pusan.ac.kr/pa
Scientific paper
We have examined consequences of strong tidal encounters between a neutron star and a normal star using SPH as a possible formation mechanism of isolated recycled pulsars in globular clusters. We have made a number of SPH simulations for close encounters between a main-sequence star of mass ranging from 0.2 to 0.7 Solar masses represented by an n=3/2 polytrope and a neutron star represented by a point mass. The outcomes of the first encounters are found to be dependent only on the dimensionless parameter eta' = (m/(m+M))^(1/2) (r_min/R_MS)^(3/2) (m/M)^(1/6), where m and M are the masses of the main-sequence star and the neutron star, respectively, r_min the minimum separation between two stars, and R_MS the size of the main-sequence star. The material from the (at least partially) disrupted star forms a disk around the neutron star. If all material in the disk is to be acctreted onto the neutron star's surface, the mass of the disk is enough to spin up the neutron star to spin period of 1 ms.
Kang Hyesung
Kim Sungsoo S.
Lee Hyung Mok
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