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The Origin of Millisecond Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Dipankar Bhattacharya
Dipankar Bhattacharya*
Affiliation:
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560080, INDIA

Abstract

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According to the standard model, millisecond pulsars are the descendants of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB). The importance of this formation route has, however, been questioned by several authors on different grounds. This paper critically reviews the arguments and assumptions underlying the standard model. The kinematic properties of the LMXB and millisecond pulsar populations are compared, and are found to be compatible. This provides an additional argument in favour of the standard model.

Type
Part 8 The Great Debate
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 160: Pulsars: Problems and Progress , 1996 , pp. 547 - 556
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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