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Progenitors of the Local Pulsars; Lower Mass Limit and Beaming Factor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

A. Blaauw*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Following up on an earlier paper on the local pulsar population (Blaauw 1985; Paper I), in which it was shown that the majority of their progenitors must be sought among the local field stars between 6 and 10 solar masses (types B2, B3) - the local OB associations accounting for a minority only of the pulsar population - we consider implications of two further restrictions: raising the lower limiting mass for neutron star formation, Mn, above 6 solar masses, and raising the beaming factor, f, above 0.3.

Type
I. Rotation-Powered Pulsars
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

References

Blaauw, A. 1985, Birth and Evolution of Massive Stars and Stellar Groups, e d, Boland, E. and van Woerden, H., p. 211224 (Paper I).CrossRefGoogle Scholar