Pulsar slow-down epochs

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Sep 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981rbrfi..11..611h&link_type=abstract

Revista Brasileira de Fisica, vol. 11, Sept. 1981, p. 611-621.

Physics

Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Evolution, Angular Momentum, Magnetic Moments, Pulsar Magnetospheres, Space Plasmas, Stellar Models

Scientific paper

An assessment of the relative importance of low-frequency waves and magnetospheric currents for pulsar braking leads to a model, which attempts to account for pulsar timing data in the literature under a unifying scheme in which all pulsars have equal masses and magnetic moments and are born as rapid rotators. The model stipulates four slow-down epochs, each of which is dominated by a different braking mechanism, and a lack of direct relationships between the slow-down age and true age of a pulsar. The model leads to a pulsar birth-rate estimate of one event per 100 years, which is in agreement with the more conservative estimates of supernova rates and the failure to discover neutron stars at their centers.

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