EVOLUTION OF TRANSIENT LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES TO REDBACK MILLISECOND PULSARS

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 814; no. 1; pp. 74 - 11
• Main Authors: Jia, Kun, Li, Xiang-Dong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Astronomical Society 20.11.2015
• Subjects: ACCRETION DISKS; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; binaries: eclipsing; BINARY STARS; ECLIPSE; Evolution; Evolutionary; Formations; Instability; MASS; Millisecond pulsars; NEUTRON STARS; PULSARS; SPACE; STAR EVOLUTION; stars: evolution; stars: neutron; TRANSIENTS; X RADIATION; X-ray stars; X-rays: binaries

ABSTRACT Redback millisecond pulsars (MSPs; hereafter redbacks) are a subpopulation of eclipsing MSPs in close binaries. The formation processes of these systems are not clear. The three pulsars showing transitions between rotation- and accretion-powered states belong to both redbacks and transient...