Constraints on Pulsar Evolution: The Joint Period-Spindown Distribution of Millisecond Pulsars Export

@article{citeulike:4010906, abstract = {We calculate the joint period-spindown (P-Pdot) distributions of millisecond radio pulsars (MSRP) for the standard evolutionary model in order to test whether the observed MSRPs are the unequivocal descendants of millisecond X-ray pulsars (MSXP). The P-Pdot densities implied by the standard evolutionary model compared with observations suggest that there is a statistically significant overabundance of young/high magnetic field MSRPs. Taking biases due to observational selection effects into account, it is unlikely that MSRPs have evolved from a single coherent progenitor population that loses energy via magnetic dipole radiation after the onset of radio emission. By producing the P-Pdot probability map, we show with more than 95\% confidence that the fastest spinning millisecond pulsars with high magnetic fields, e.g. PSR B1937+21, cannot be produced by the observed MSXPs within the framework of the standard model.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Kiziltan, Bulent and Thorsett, Stephen E.}, citeulike-article-id = {4010906}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0604}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.0604}, day = {4}, eprint = {0902.0604}, keywords = {1023, theory}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2009-02-06 16:29:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Constraints on Pulsar Evolution: The Joint Period-Spindown Distribution of Millisecond Pulsars}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0604}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4010906 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4010906 N2 - We calculate the joint period-spindown (P-Pdot) distributions of millisecond radio pulsars (MSRP) for the standard evolutionary model in order to test whether the observed MSRPs are the unequivocal descendants of millisecond X-ray pulsars (MSXP). The P-Pdot densities implied by the standard evolutionary model compared with observations suggest that there is a statistically significant overabundance of young/high magnetic field MSRPs. Taking biases due to observational selection effects into account, it is unlikely that MSRPs have evolved from a single coherent progenitor population that loses energy via magnetic dipole radiation after the onset of radio emission. By producing the P-Pdot probability map, we show with more than 95% confidence that the fastest spinning millisecond pulsars with high magnetic fields, e.g. PSR B1937+21, cannot be produced by the observed MSXPs within the framework of the standard model. TI - Constraints on Pulsar Evolution: The Joint Period-Spindown Distribution of Millisecond Pulsars KW - 1023 KW - theory AU - Kiziltan, Bulent AU - Thorsett, Stephen PY - 2009/Feb/04/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0604 ER -