Pulsar Spindown by a Fall-Back Disk and the P-P_dot Diagram

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2001-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104287v3

Astrophys.J.557:L61-L65,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, aastex, final version accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/323140

Neutron stars may be surrounded by fall-back disks formed from supernova core-collapse. If the disk circumscribes the light-cylinder, the neutron star will be an active radio pulsar spinning down under the propeller spin-down torque applied by the disk as well as the usual magnetic dipole radiation torque. Evolution across the P-P_dot diagram is very rapid when pulsar spin-down is dominated by the propeller torque. This explains the distribution of pulsars in the P-P_dot diagram.

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