Recovering Pulsar Braking Index from a Population of Millisecond Pulsars
The braking index, n , of a pulsar is a measure of its angular momentum loss and the value it takes to correspond to different spin-down mechanisms. For a pulsar spinning down due to gravitational-wave emission from the principal mass quadrupole mode alone, the braking index would equal exactly 5. U...
| Published in: | The Astrophysical Journal |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2025-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc683 |