Recycled pulsars with black hole companions: the high-mass analogues of PSR B2303+46

Authors
Publication date 2004
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume | Issue number 354
Pages (from-to) L49-L53
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We investigate the possibility that mass transfer early in the evolution of a massive binary can effect a reversal of the end states of the two components, resulting in a neutron star that forms before a black hole. In this sense, such systems would comprise the high-mass analogues of white dwarf-neutron star systems such as PSR B2303+46. One consequence of this reversal is that a second episode of mass transfer from the black hole progenitor star can recycle the nascent neutron star, extending the life of the pulsar.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08373.x
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2004MNRAS.354L..49S&db_key=AST&high=41f4b95c5121568
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