Magnetic Field Decay in Single Radio Pulsars: A Statistical Study

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Nov 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997apj...489..928m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal v.489, p.928

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

11

Stars: Pulsars: General, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Magnetic Fields, Stars: Rotation

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We report on an extensive statistical study of single radio pulsar properties, which we undertook to estimate the decay timescale of pulsar magnetic fields. We synthesized a population of pulsars using assumed theoretical distributions of age, initial magnetic field, period of rotation, position, luminosity, and dispersion measure, taking into account the new distance model for pulsars as well as new velocity estimates. We also took into account the selection effects that characterize pulsar observations. We compared the simulated population with the observed single pulsar population using one- and two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests to obtain a lower bound of ~160 Myr on the decay timescale.

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