Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publiction in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12635.x
We study the effect of the neutron star spin -- kick velocity alignment observed in young radio pulsars on the coalescence rate of binary neutron stars. Two scenarios of the neutron star formation are considered: when the kick is always present and when it is small or absent if a neutron star is formed in a binary system due to electron-capture degenerate core collapse. The effect is shown to be especially strong for large kick amplitudes and tight alignments, reducing the expected galactic rate of binary neutron star coalescences compared to calculations with randomly directed kicks. The spin-kick correlation also leads to a much narrower NS spin-orbit misalignment.
Kuranov A. G.
Postnov Konstantin A.
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