The eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar PSR B1744-24A - possible test for a magnetic braking mechanism

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2000-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010262v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, uses l-aa.sty and psfig.tex, abstract, accepted for publication in A&A

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As presented by Nice et al. (2000), long-term timing of the eclipsing binary PSR B1744-24A shows that the orbital period of this system decreases with a time-scale of only ~ 200 Myr. To explain the much faster orbital period decay than that predicted by only emission of the gravitational waves ~ 1000 Myr) we propose that the orbital evolution of this system is also driven by magnetic braking . If magnetic braking is to explain the rapid decay of the orbit, then \lambda characterizing the effectiveness of the dynamo action in the stellar convection zone in the magnetic stellar wind formula must be equal to 1.

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