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On the Bottom Magnetic Fields of Millisecond Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Chengmin Zhang*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract

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The magnetic field strengths of most millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are about 108–9 gauss. The accretion-induced magnetic field evolution scenario here concludes that field decay is related to the accreted mass, that the minimum or bottom field stops at about 108 gauss for Eddington-limited accretion, and scales with the accretion rate as M1/2. The possibility of low field (∼ 107 gauss) MSPs has been proposed for future radio observations.

Type
Part 1: Neutron Star Formation and Evolution
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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