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On the Birthrates of Galactic Neutron Stars

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The following chapter is an enhanced version of a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2008: Keane and Kramer[27]. As presented, this chapter, presents investigations based upon the state of knowledge as it was in 2008. It is presented in this way so as to keep the logical flow of the thesis chronological. The following chapters will expand on what has been learnt up to the present, and, in particular, Chaps. 8 and 9 give an up to date summary and overview, incorporating both the work in this thesis and that of many other authors.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This transition from X-ray binary to millisecond pulsar has recently been observed in PSR J1023+0038 [2].

  2. 2.

    Some authors also define 1E 161348-5055, the source associated with the RCW 103 supernova remnant as a CCO. However here we follow the definition of Halpern and Gotthelf [23] and take CCOs as having steady X-ray flux. RCW 103 has variable X-ray flux.

  3. 3.

    We could also separate out the current in the \(\dot{P}\) direction but this would require a knowledge of \(\ddot{P}\) which we do not have.

  4. 4.

    And we have used the Leibniz Integral Rule, i.e. \({\frac{d}{dx}}\int f (x,y) dy = \int {\frac{\partial}{\partial x}}f(x,y)dy.\)

  5. 5.

    We note the extra downward emission above the surfaces of pulsars will act as a heating mechanism of the polar cap. This scenario does not apply for RRATs and XDINSs if they are ‘off’ most and all of the time.

  6. 6.

    The exact range depends on how convection is treated, e.g. large convective overshooting and low metallicity make the limit go from \(12\;\) to \(10\;\hbox{M}_{\bigodot}\) [14], hence the uncertainty in the high mass value.

  7. 7.

    In more massive stars the core does not become degenerate, Ne burns, and eventually an Fe core forms and we get a CCSN.

  8. 8.

    In Appendix C we mention some updated supplementary information pertaining to this chapter.

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