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