Planetary systems around radio pulsars
Abstract
The paper examines possible pathways of the formation of planetary systems around radio pulsars in the course of close binary evolution. Dynamical disruption in the Roche lobe filling component leads to formation of a gas disk around a neutron star or oxygen-neon dwarf. The latter can accrete disk matter and collapse into a neutron star. The disk size increases significantly owing to viscosity; its temperature decreases, and dust particles are condensed in it. Coagulation of dust particles finally leads to accumulation of planets on circular orbits around neutron stars.
- Publication:
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Astronomicheskii Vestnik
- Pub Date:
- June 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992AVest..26...44T
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Planetary Systems;
- Pulsars;
- Radio Sources (Astronomy);
- Stellar Evolution;
- Accretion Disks;
- Cosmic Dust;
- Gravitational Collapse;
- Neutron Stars;
- Astrophysics