The Crustal Rigidity of a Neutron Star, and Implications for PSR 1828-11 and other Precession Candidates

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2002-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210175v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

44 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/368308

We calculate the crustal rigidity parameter, b, of a neutron star (NS), and show that b is a factor 40 smaller than the standard estimate due to Baym & Pines (1971). For a NS with a relaxed crust, the NS's free-precession frequency is directly proportional to b. We apply our result for b to PSR 1828-11, a 2.5 Hz pulsar that appears to be precessing with period 511 d. Assuming this 511-d period is set by crustal rigidity, we show that this NS's crust is not relaxed, and that its reference spin (roughly, the spin for which the crust is most relaxed) is 40 Hz, and that the average spindown strain in the crust is 5 \times 10^{-5}. We also briefly describe the implications of our b calculation for other well-known precession candidates.

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