2019MNRAS.490..752T -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 490, 752-757 (2019/November-3)
Evolving neutron star+helium star systems to intermediate-mass binary pulsars.
TANG W., LIU D. and WANG B.
Abstract (from CDS):
Intermediate-mass binary pulsars (IMBPs) are composed of neutron stars (NSs) and CO/ONe white dwarfs (WDs). It is generally suggested that IMBPs evolve from intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXBs). However, this scenario is difficult to explain the formation of IMBPs with orbital periods (Porb) less than 3 d. It has recently been proposed that a system consisting of an NS and a helium (He) star can form IMBPs with Porb less than 3 d (known as the NS+He star scenario), but previous works can only cover a few observed sources with short orbital periods. We aim to investigate the NS+He star scenario by adopting different descriptions of the Eddington accretion rate ({dot}M_ Edd_) for NSs and different NS masses (MNS) varying from 1.10 to 1.80 M☉. Our results can cover most of the observed IMBPs with short orbital periods and almost half of the observed IMBPs with long orbital periods. We found that {dot}M_ Edd_ ∝ MNS–1/3 could match the observations better than a specific value for all NSs. We also found that the final spin periods of NSs slightly decrease with the initial MNS. The observed parameters of PSR J0621+1002, which is one of the well-observed IMBPs whose pulsar mass has been precisely measured, can be reproduced by this work.
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© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
binaries: close - stars: evolution - supernovae: general - white dwarfs
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