Furnishing the Galaxy with Pulsars

Details Furnishing the Galaxy with Pulsars Furnishing the Galaxy with Pulsars

2007-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/0711.4138v1

AIP Conf.Proc.983:610-612,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 3 figures, Conference: "40 years of pulsars: Millisecond pulsars, magnetars and more", McGill University, Montreal, C

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2900309

The majority of pulsar population synthesis studies performed to date have focused on isolated pulsar evolution. Those that have incorporated pulsar evolution within binary systems have tended to either treat binary evolution poorly of evolve the pulsar population in an ad-hoc manner. Here we present the first model of the Galactic field pulsar population that includes a comprehensive treatment of both binary and pulsar evolution. Synthetic observational surveys mimicking a variety of radio telescopes are then performed on this population. As such, a complete and direct comparison of model data with observations of the pulsar population within the Galactic disk is now possible. The tool used for completing this work is a code comprised of three components: stellar/binary evolution, Galactic kinematics and survey selection effects. Here we give a brief overview of the method and assumptions involved with each component. Some preliminary results are also presented as well as plans for future applications of the code.

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