A Growing Braking Index and Spin-down Swings for the Pulsar PSR B0540–69
The way pulsars spin down is not understood in detail, but a number of possible physical mechanisms produce a spin-down rate that scales as a power of the rotation rate ( $\dot{\nu }\propto -{\nu }^{n}$ ), with the power-law index n called the braking index. PSR B0540−69 is a pulsar that in 2011, af...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad778c |