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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 438, Issue 1, Pages L86-L90Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slt164
Keywords
stars: neutron; pulsars: general; stars: rotation; supernovae: general; white dwarfs; X-rays: binaries
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- European Research Council [279702]
- Argelander-Insitut fur Astronomie, Universitat Bonn
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie
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Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are believed to be old neutron stars, formed via Type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae, which have subsequently been spun up to high rotation rates via accretion from a companion star in a highly circularized low-mass X-ray binary. The recent discoveries of Galactic field binary MSPs in eccentric orbits, and mass functions compatible with that expected for helium white dwarf companions, PSR J2234+06 and PSR J1946+3417, therefore challenge this picture. Here, we present a hypothesis for producing this new class of systems, where the MSPs are formed directly from a rotationally delayed accretion-induced collapse of a super-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf. We compute the orbital properties of the MSPs formed in such events and demonstrate that our hypothesis can reproduce the observed eccentricities, masses and orbital periods of the white dwarfs, as well as forecasting the pulsar masses and velocities. Finally, we compare this hypothesis to a triple-star scenario.
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