Recycled pulsars with black hole companions: the high-mass analogues of PSR B2303+46

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Publication date 2004
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume | Issue number 354
Pages (from-to) L49-L53
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We investigate the possibility that mass transfer early in the evolution of a massive binary can effect a reversal of the end states of the two components, resulting in a neutron star that forms before a black hole. In this sense, such systems would comprise the high-mass analogues of white dwarf-neutron star systems such as PSR B2303+46. One consequence of this reversal is that a second episode of mass transfer from the black hole progenitor star can recycle the nascent neutron star, extending the life of the pulsar.
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