Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-03-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12pages, 1 figure, 3 table, this paper has been withdrawn
Scientific paper
Pulsars have been recognized as normal neutron stars or quark stars. Sub-millisecond pulsars, if detected, would play an essential and important role in distinguishing quark stars from neutron stars. A key question is how sub-millisecond pulsars could form. Both sub-Keplerian (for neutron and quark stars) and super-Keplerian cases (only for quark stars, which are bound additionally by strong interaction) have been discussed in this paper in order to investigate possible ways of forming sub-millisecond pulsars. In the sub-Keplerian case, the equilibrium periods of both neutron and quark stars could be as low as ~0.4 ms when they are spun up through accretion in binary systems. In the super-Keplerian case, pulsars could very likely have an initial period of ~0.1 ms if quark stars with different mass could be formed from accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of white dwarfs. The timescale for a sub-millisecond pulsar to keep its period <1 ms is restricted due to gravitational wave radiation. We found that the timescales of neutron stars within sub-millisecond periods are approximately ~10 yr, but the timescales estimated (>10 Myr) for low-mass quark stars could be long enough for us to detect.
Du Yuan-Jie
Han Jian-Long
Qiao Guo Jun
Xu Ren Xin
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