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Binary pulsars before spin-up and PSR 1820 – 11

Abstract

We argue that PSR 1820 – 11 may be a young pulsar, with a main-sequence companion, and that the system is the progenitor of a low-mass X-ray binary, rather than the descendant of one. If it is not, such a system should soon be found. The small number of antediluvian binary pulsars suggests that most, but not all neutron stars have some torque decay after birth.

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© 1991 Royal Astronomical Society. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Accepted 1990 November 21. Received 1990 November 15; in original form 1990 October 22. We thank Shri Kulkarni for discussions. ESP was supported in part by NSF PYI grant AST 84-51725 and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. FV thanks Caltech for partial support.

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