Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Lecture 11: Millisecond Pulsars

Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Lecture 11: Millisecond Pulsars

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Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Lecture 11: Millisecond Pulsars

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  1. 1 Time: AM
  2. 2 Neutron Stars and Black Holes Lecture - 11: Millisecond Pulsars
  3. 3 Millisecond Pulsars
  4. 4 The First Millisecond Pulsar
  5. 5 The dog that did not bark!
  6. 6 But there was absolutely no nebulosity in radio or optical or x-ray!
  7. 7 Curious coincidence once again!
  8. 8 A bold conjecture!
  9. 9 Evolution of Pulsars
  10. 10 Recycled Pulsars
  11. 11 Reincarnation of the first-born neutron star
  12. 12 Spinning up a Neutron Star in a Binary System
  13. 13 Massive Binary
  14. 14 Spinning up a neutron star
  15. 15 What will be its period after the spin up phase is over?
  16. 16 The Equilibrium Period
  17. 17 Accretion disk
  18. 18 PSR 1913+16 must be a recycled pulsar
  19. 19 Question: For a given magnetic field, can we spin up a neutron star to arbitrarily small period?
  20. 20 Eddington Luminosity Limit
  21. 21 Thompson scattering cross section:
  22. 22 Eddington Limit for the Accretion Rate
  23. 23 The Minimum Equilibrium Period
  24. 24 Recycled Pulsars
  25. 25 The Millisecond Pulsar
  26. 26 The Progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars
  27. 27 But where is the Companion
  28. 28 The second Millisecond Pulsar
  29. 29 The Population of ms-Pulsars
  30. 30 The Moral of Millisecond Pulsars
  31. 31 "The trumpets shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible"
  32. 32 Prediction: Millisecond pulsars are for ever!
  33. 33 Predictions made in 1986
  34. 34 Thirty years later
  35. 35 The missing companion of the solitary millisecond pulsar
  36. 36 The ungrateful recycled pulsar!
  37. 37 Yet Another Puzzle of the 1980s
  38. 38 COS-B map of the galactic plane
  39. 39 The Puzzle
  40. 40 Is There a Puzzle?
  41. 41 Diffuse Gamma-rays: Latitude ProfileHunter et al 1997
  42. 42 A Prediction made in 1988
  43. 43 Twenty one years after this prediction was made. ...
  44. 44 14 August, 2009
  45. 45 "A population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope"
  46. 46 Millisecond Pulsars and Gravitational Waves
  47. 47 Gravitational radiation from ms-PSRs
  48. 48 2000: X-ray binary & 2009: radio millisecond pulsar
  49. 49 PSR J1023+0038 - The missing link
  50. 50 Atomic Clocks and Millisecond Pulsars
  51. 51 PSR 1937+21
  52. 52 ms-PSRs and Atomic Clocks
  53. 53 Millisecond Pulsars as Gravitational Wave Detectors
  54. 54 Pulsar Timing Array
  55. 55 Next Lecture - Black Holes
  56. 56 Q&A

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