Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996mnras.283.1214j&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 283, Issue 4, pp. 1214-1226.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Magnetic Fields, Binaries: General, Stars: Neutron, Pulsars: General
Scientific paper
We explore the consequences of the model of spin-down-induced flux expulsion for the magnetic field evolution in solitary as well as in binary neutron stars. The spin evolution of pulsars, allowing for their field evolution according to this model, is shown to be consistent with the existing observational constraints in both low- and high-mass X-ray binary systems. The contribution from pulsars recycled in massive binaries to the observed excess in the number of low-field (10^11-10^12 G) solitary pulsars is argued to be negligible in comparison with that of normal pulsars undergoing a `restricted' field decay predicted by the adopted field decay model. Magnetic fields of neutron stars born in close binaries with intermediate-or high-mass main-sequence companions are predicted to decay down to values as low as ~10^6 G, which would leave them unobservable as pulsars during most of their lifetimes. The post-recycling evolution of some of these systems can, however, account for the observed binary pulsars having neutron star or massive white dwarf companions. Pulsars recycled in the disc population low-mass binaries are expected to have residual fields >~10^8G, while for those processed in globular clusters larger residual fields are predicted because of the lower field strength of the neutron star at the epoch of binary formation. A value of tau~1-2x10^7 yr for the mean value of the Ohmic decay time-scale in the crusts of neutron stars is suggested, based on the consistency of the model predictions with the observed distribution of periods and magnetic fields in the single and binary pulsars.
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