Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-02-12
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 232
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 16 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07640.x
Pulsar motions in our Galaxy from their birth until 2 Gyr are studied statistically via Monte-Carlo simulation of $2\times 10^5$ pulsars with the best available representation of the Galactic potential. We find that the distribution of height above the Galactic plane for pulsars with characteristic ages less than about 8 Myr could be well fitted by a Gaussian function. For older pulsars, an extra exponential function is necessary to fit the distribution. The scale-height of the Gaussian component increases linearly with time until about 40 Myr. The height distribution becomes stabilized after about 200 Myr. These results are not sensitive to initial height or radial distributions. Taking the relationship between the initial velocity and height distribution, we found from the latest pulsar catalog that the height distribution of pulsars younger than 1 Myr directly implies the mean initial velocity of $280\pm96$ km s$^{-1}$. Comparison of simulated sample of pulsars with the current available millisecond pulsars shows that their 1D initial velocity dispersion should be most probably $60\pm10$ km s$^{-1}$.
Han Jian-Long
Sun Xiao-Hui
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