Pulsars and relativity - Rhodes University
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Pulsars and relativity
1. Physics of neutron star interior 2. Radio pulsars a. Young pulsars b. Recycling pulsars c. Hulse-Taylor pulsar d. Double pulsar: probe of magnetosphere e. Double pulsar: relativity
3. Future prospects
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Neutron stars: general-relativistic, super-magnetized, partly elastic giant nucleus containing several types of exotic quantum fluids.
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First discovered neutron star: a radio pulsar.After 40 years, origin of the radio beam isnot understood. Hewish, Bell, et al 1968
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Pulsars are excellent clocks… But only after averaging!
Credit: Ingrid Stairs
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Magnetic field and period increase:
Pulsar spindownluminosity
(Spitkovsky 2007)
1 2
MagneticField (dipole)
Rotational phase
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Dynamical simulations of the rotating magnetosphere
Spitkovsky 2007
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Chandra image:
Crab nebula is powered by the pulsar spin-down.
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Period vs Period derivative:
Normal pulsars
Recycled, millisecond pulsars
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Period vs Period derivative:
Millisecond pulsars:
1. Spun up by accretion from companion. Highest spin 716 Hz (Hessel, et al 2006)
2. Accretion reduces magnetic field. B~100 million G.
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Spin-up from a binary companion
• Low-mass x-ray binaries: Roche-Lobe overflow. Donor star is
a. Low-mass main-sequence star b. White dwarf c. Brown dwarf
• High-mass x-ray binaries: accretion from a fast wind of the high-mass companion.
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Millisecond X-ray pulsar! Found by Wijnands & van der Klis 98.Spin-up by recycling prooved.
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Using pulsars as Einstein clocks.
Hulse and Taylor found a binary NS, one of them a pulsar, in 1973.This Hulse-Taylor pulsar has been used for dramatic tests of GR.Nobel prize 1993.
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Masses.
Shapiro delay
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Gravitational Radiation. This is not a fit!Weisberg & Taylor 2004
Orbit shrinks due togravitational wave emission
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Double pulsar, discovered in the Parkes Telescope multibeam survey.
Lyne et al. 03Icredibly lucky: edge on.Pulsar eclipses directly probe magnetosphere.New GR tests.
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Double Pulsar: Tests of GR (courtesy M. Kramer)Kramer et al. in prep.
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Slides on the double pulsar courtesy of Maxim Lyutikov.
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Conclusions:
• Neutron stars show a variety of interesting phenomena, mostly related to its magnetic fields and environments
• Pulsars currently provide the most precise tests of GR
• Will discuss SKA later on.