Neutron Stars and Black Holes Lecture - 11: Millisecond Pulsars
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Millisecond Pulsars
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The First Millisecond Pulsar
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The dog that did not bark!
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But there was absolutely no nebulosity in radio or optical or x-ray!
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Curious coincidence once again!
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A bold conjecture!
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Evolution of Pulsars
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Recycled Pulsars
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Reincarnation of the first-born neutron star
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Spinning up a Neutron Star in a Binary System
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Massive Binary
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Spinning up a neutron star
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What will be its period after the spin up phase is over?
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The Equilibrium Period
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Accretion disk
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PSR 1913+16 must be a recycled pulsar
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Question: For a given magnetic field, can we spin up a neutron star to arbitrarily small period?
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Eddington Luminosity Limit
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Thompson scattering cross section:
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Eddington Limit for the Accretion Rate
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The Minimum Equilibrium Period
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Recycled Pulsars
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The Millisecond Pulsar
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The Progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars
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But where is the Companion
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The second Millisecond Pulsar
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The Population of ms-Pulsars
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The Moral of Millisecond Pulsars
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"The trumpets shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible"
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Prediction: Millisecond pulsars are for ever!
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Predictions made in 1986
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Thirty years later
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The missing companion of the solitary millisecond pulsar
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The ungrateful recycled pulsar!
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Yet Another Puzzle of the 1980s
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COS-B map of the galactic plane
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The Puzzle
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Is There a Puzzle?
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Diffuse Gamma-rays: Latitude ProfileHunter et al 1997
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A Prediction made in 1988
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Twenty one years after this prediction was made. ...
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14 August, 2009
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"A population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope"
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Millisecond Pulsars and Gravitational Waves
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Gravitational radiation from ms-PSRs
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2000: X-ray binary & 2009: radio millisecond pulsar
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PSR J1023+0038 - The missing link
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Atomic Clocks and Millisecond Pulsars
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PSR 1937+21
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ms-PSRs and Atomic Clocks
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Millisecond Pulsars as Gravitational Wave Detectors
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Pulsar Timing Array
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Next Lecture - Black Holes
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Q&A
Description:
Explore the fascinating world of millisecond pulsars in this comprehensive lecture from the "Neutron Stars and Black Holes" summer course. Delve into the discovery and characteristics of these rapidly rotating neutron stars, their evolution from normal pulsars, and the process of "recycling" in binary systems. Examine the Eddington luminosity limit, equilibrium periods, and the population of millisecond pulsars. Investigate their connections to gravitational waves, atomic clocks, and their potential as gravitational wave detectors. Learn about key predictions, puzzles, and breakthroughs in the field, including the detection of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars. Gain insights into the importance of these celestial objects for understanding stellar evolution, binary systems, and fundamental physics.
Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Lecture 11: Millisecond Pulsars