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Braking Indices for Twenty Pulsars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
We have derived a formula for the braking index of pulsars via integration rather than the conventional differentiation method. We applied the method to 20 pulsars and find that virtually all the derived braking indices are dominated by the effects of (unseen) glitches, the recovery from which corrupts the value of . However, any real, large, positive braking index has implications for magnetic field decay and offers support to recent models of pulsar evolution.
- Type
- Part 9. Population and Neutron Star Properties
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 599 - 600
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000