The Impact of Spin-kick Alignment on the Inferred Velocity Distribution of Isolated Pulsars

The speeds of young isolated pulsars are generally inferred from their observed 2D velocities on the plane of the sky under the assumption that the unobserved radial velocity is not special, i.e., that the measured 2D velocity is an isotropic projection of the full 3D velocity. However, if pulsar sp...

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Main Authors: Ilya Mandel, Andrei P. Igoshev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb3c3