Pulsar Statistics: a Study of Pulsar Luminosities (Poster)
Abstract
The authors find a statistically significant correlation between pulsar luminosity at 400 MHz and both pulsar period and period derivative. Fitting a phenomenological power-law model Lmodel(P,P) ≡ PαPβ (where P is pulsar period, Pperiod derivative and L radio luminosity) to the pulsar luminosity data, they obtain α = -1.04±0.15 and β = 0.35±0.06. The above values suggest that pulsar radio luminosity varies roughly as the cube root of the total loss of rotational energy.
- Publication:
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Birth and Evolution of Neutron Stars: Issues Raised by Millisecond Pulsars
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984bens.work..151P