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Published March 1992 | Version Published
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Formation of a 'planet' by rapid evaporation of a pulsar's companion

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A planet-size object in circular orbit around a pulsar could be formed as the result of rapid evaporation of a more massive binary companion by the pulsar's radiation.

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© European Southern Observatory 1992. Received December 24, 1991; accepted January 10, 1992. We thank L. Bildsten for a useful conversation, A. Thoul for a critical reading of the manuscript, and I. Wasserman for comments. This work has been supported in part by NSF grants AST90-15451 and PHY90-07834, and NASA grant NAGW-2364 to Cornell University.

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AST90-15451
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