Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995mnras.274..300l&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 274, Issue 1, pp. 300-304.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Methods: Statistical, Stars: Kinematics, Stars: Neutron, Pulsars: General, Solar Neighbourhood
Scientific paper
Using a fully self-consistent approach to account for known survey selection effects, we constrain the number and scale height of low-mass binary pulsars (LMBPs) in the local solar neighbourhood. Our results show that the local surface density of LMBPs with luminosities above 2.5 mJy kpc^2 is ~ 20 kpc^-2. Models in which the scale height of LMBPs above the galactic plane is >~ 500 pc are found to be most consistent with the data. The mean space velocity at birth required to produce scale heights of this order is found to be >~ 80 km s^-1. Assuming that LMBPs are long-lived (<~lapp 10^10 yr) objects, their local birth rate is at least 2 x 10^-9 kpc^-2 yr^-1. Whilst this is in excellent agreement with the birth rate of their proposed progenitors, the low-mass X-ray binaries, there are several uncertainties involved which could significantly increase this limit on the birth rate, perhaps by an order of magnitude. We should not discount the possibility that some of these pulsars are formed via a different process, such as the accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf.
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