Feasibility of a low-mass binary source progenitor for PSR 1937 + 214

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Binary Stars, Pulsars, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Rotation, Accretion Disks, Angular Momentum, Dwarf Stars, Neutron Stars, Stellar Mass, Stellar Orbits

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One suggested progenitor system for the 1.5-ms pulsar PSR1937+214 is a close binary containing, in the late stages of its evolution, a neutron star and a very-low-mass (⪉0.1 M_sun;) degenerate dwarf helium star. The two main questions that affect the plausibility of this scenario are: (1) whether the system's evolution would in fact leave the neutron star at the observed high spin rate; and (2) whether the secondary could be disrupted, leaving a single pulsar. The authors have analysed such a system and find that the equilibrium rotation period predicted for the neutron star immediately before the disruption of the secondary is so large that matter accreted from a disk after disruption would be unlikely to spin the pulsar up to the observed period. It is thus unlikely that PSR1937+214 originated in a binary system in which the companion had an extremely low mass at disruption.

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