Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008arep...52..390t&link_type=abstract
Astronomy Reports, Volume 52, Issue 5, pp.390-402
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
97.60.Gb, 97.60.Jd, 97.80.Fk
Scientific paper
The initial distribution of young radio pulsars, reconstructed from the observed distribution of their spatial velocities distorted by observational selection effects, taking into account the age and spatial distribution of radio pulsars with measured spatial velocities, appears to be bimodal. Most young pulsars are formed with velocities of ˜100 km/s. Some fraction of young radio pulsars display an almost flat velocity distribution ( dv/dv ≈ const) from 150 to 1000 km/s. Scenario modeling in the absence of an additional (kick) velocity acquired by the young neutron star during its formation in a supernova explosion can reproduce the initial velocity distribution of radio pulsars, but results in a higher fraction of radio pulsars in binaries than is observed. Assuming a random initial Maxwellian kick velocity of ˜100 km/s makes it possible to reduce the fraction of radio pulsars in binaries to the observed value (<1%), while leaving the velocity distribution for radio pulsars close to the observed bimodal initial distribution. Such kick velocities are also able to explain the observed distribution of radio pulsars in close binaries in the eccentricity—orbital period plane.
Bogomazov Alexey I.
Tutukov Aleksandr V.
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