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The Noisy Ageing of Slow Pulsars: New Thoughts on the Evolution of the Pulsar Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Aris Karastergiou  and
Simon Johnston
Aris Karastergiou
Affiliation:
Oxford Astrophysics, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK Physics Department, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town 7535, South Africa Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa email: aris.karastergiou@physics.ox.ac.uk
Simon Johnston
Affiliation:
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia email: simon.johnston@csiro.au
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Abstract

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Over the last decade or so, it has become clear that pulsars exhibit sudden and significant changes in their spin properties. At the same time, a better understanding of the geometry of young and older pulsars, is providing clues about the long-term evolution of the magnetic inclination angle. In this talk, we present a simple simulation of the pulsar population that takes into account current observational facts. We show how, with very few assumptions, the observed P-Ṗ diagram can be reproduced for a synthesized population. The implications are interesting and testable.

Keywords

pulsars: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 100 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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