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Millisecond Pulsars by Professor G Srinivasan
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- 1 The First Millisecond Pulsar
- 2 The dog that did not bark!
- 3 But there was absolutely no nebulosity in radio or optical or x-ray!
- 4 Curious coincidence once again!
- 5 A bold conjecture!
- 6 Evolution of Pulsars
- 7 Recycled Pulsars
- 8 Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar
- 9 The Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar
- 10 Agatha Christie
- 11 Reincarnation of Pulsars
- 12 Spinning up a Neutron Star in a Binary System
- 13 What will be its period after the spin up phase is over?
- 14 The Equilibrium Period
- 15 Accretion disk
- 16 PSR 1913+16 must be a recycled pulsar
- 17 The Equilibrium Period
- 18 Question: For a given magnetic field, can we spin up a neutron star to arbitrarily small period?
- 19 Eddington Luminosity Limit
- 20 Eddington Limit for the Accretion Rate
- 21 The Minimum Equilibrium Period
- 22 The Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar
- 23 Predictions made by GS & van den Heuvel 1978,80
- 24 The 'second born' neutron star will be like any other 'ordinary' pulsar:
- 25 Predictions made in 1980
- 26 Astronomer's reaction !
- 27 The Double Pulsar: an odd couple!
- 28 Prediction made in 1980 confirmed
- 29 The First Millisecond Pulsar
- 30 A bold conjecture!
- 31 Recycled Pulsars
- 32 The solitary millisecond pulsar
- 33 The Millisecond Pulsar
- 34 The progenitors of millisecond pulsars
- 35 But where is the Companion !
- 36 The Population of ms-Pulsars
- 37 The Moral of Millisecond Pulsars
- 38 The large population of millisecond pulsars clearly tells us that the magnetic field of millisecond pulsars do not decay further.
- 39 Predictions made in 1986
- 40 Thirty years later
- 41 The missing companion of the solitary millisecond pulsar
- 42 Evolution of the Magnetic Field of Neutron Stars.
- 43 Any viable theory of field evolution must explain the following questions.
- 44 Origin of magnetic field of neutron stars
- 45 Field decay in Neutron Stars
- 46 Superfluid core
- 47 Type II superconductivity in the core
- 48 Type II Proton Superconductivity in the core
- 49 "Vortices" to the rescue!
- 50 Two types of "Spaghettis" in the core:
- 51 The inter-pinning of the fluxoids and vortices
- 52 Main results and predictions
- 53 Status of the predictions made in 1990
- 54 The skeptics:
- 55 The final nail in the coffin!
- 56 2000: X-ray binary & 2009: radio millisecond pulsar
- 57 PSR J1023+0038 - The missing link
- 58 Yet Another Puzzle of the 1980s
- 59 COS-B map of the galactic plane
- 60 The Puzzle
- 61 Is there a Puzzle?
- 62 A Prediction made in 1988
- 63 The high latitude emission may appear "Diffuse" because of the poor angular resolution of the telescope.
- 64 Twenty one years after this prediction was made. ...
- 65 "A population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope"
- 66 Millisecond Pulsars: A New Population of Gamma Ray Sources
- 67 Fermi Lat has detected gamma ray emission from nearly 100 millisecond pulsars
- 68 Gravitational radiation from ms-PSRs
- 69 Atomic Clocks and Millisecond Pulsars
- 70 ms-PSRs and Atomic Clocks
- 71 ms-PSRs as gravitational wave detectors
- 72 Pulsar Timing
- 73 Pulsar Timing Array
- 74 The trumpets shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
- 75 Q&A
