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The Masses of the Neutron Stars in M15C

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

W.T.S. Deich  and
S.R. Kulkarni
W.T.S. Deich
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
S.R. Kulkarni
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology

Abstract

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Several years of timing the pulsar in the binary neutron star system M15C have yielded the masses of both stars: the total mass is MT = 2.7121(6) M⊙; the companion mass is mc = 1.36(4) M⊙; and the pulsar mass is mp = 1.35(4) M⊙. We argue that this system is not likely to have formed through accretion-induced collapse (AIC), and that the standard model also has problems in explaining the formation.

Type
4 Radio Pulsars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 165: Compact Stars in Binaries , 1996 , pp. 279 - 285
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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