Binary population synthesis of the Galactic canonical pulsar population
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| author | Song, Yuzhe Stevenson, Simon Chattopadhyay, Debatri Tan, Joshua Paglione, Timothy A. D. |
| author_facet | Song, Yuzhe Stevenson, Simon Chattopadhyay, Debatri Tan, Joshua Paglione, Timothy A. D. |
| contents | Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to gamma-rays. We use the rapid binary population synthesis suite COMPAS to model the Galactic population of canonical pulsars. We account for both radio and gamma-ray selection effects, as well as the motion of pulsars in the Galactic potential due to natal kicks. We compare our models to the catalogues of pulsars detected in the radio, and those detected in gamma-rays by Fermi, and find broad agreement with both populations. We reproduce the observed ratio of radio-loud to radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars. We further examine the possibility of low spin-down luminosity (Edot) pulsars emitting weak, unpulsed gamma-ray emission and attempt to match this with results from a recent gamma-ray stacking survey of these pulsars. We confirm the correlation between the latitude of a pulsar and its Edot arises due to natal kicks imparted to pulsars at birth, assuming that all pulsars are born in the Galactic disk. |
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| spellingShingle | Binary population synthesis of the Galactic canonical pulsar population Song, Yuzhe Stevenson, Simon Chattopadhyay, Debatri Tan, Joshua Paglione, Timothy A. D. High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to gamma-rays. We use the rapid binary population synthesis suite COMPAS to model the Galactic population of canonical pulsars. We account for both radio and gamma-ray selection effects, as well as the motion of pulsars in the Galactic potential due to natal kicks. We compare our models to the catalogues of pulsars detected in the radio, and those detected in gamma-rays by Fermi, and find broad agreement with both populations. We reproduce the observed ratio of radio-loud to radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars. We further examine the possibility of low spin-down luminosity (Edot) pulsars emitting weak, unpulsed gamma-ray emission and attempt to match this with results from a recent gamma-ray stacking survey of these pulsars. We confirm the correlation between the latitude of a pulsar and its Edot arises due to natal kicks imparted to pulsars at birth, assuming that all pulsars are born in the Galactic disk. |
| title | Binary population synthesis of the Galactic canonical pulsar population |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11428 |