Characteristic times of pulsars and their ages

There are known to be three extensive regions in the Galaxy in which very young stars are more than 60 pc from the Galactic plane. The pulsars with characteristic times tau of less than 2 million yr in these regions deviate from the Galactic plane in the same direction as the O-B2 stars. Pulsars wit...

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Published in:Astrophysics 1987-05, Vol.25 (3), p.660-664
Main Authors: Guseinov, O. Kh, Yusifov, I. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:There are known to be three extensive regions in the Galaxy in which very young stars are more than 60 pc from the Galactic plane. The pulsars with characteristic times tau of less than 2 million yr in these regions deviate from the Galactic plane in the same direction as the O-B2 stars. Pulsars with larger values of tau do not exhibit such a correlation. This suggests that pulsars with small tau were formed recently and therefore have not yet had time to leave the region in which they were formed. For such pulsars, tau is a good reflection of the age. (Author)
ISSN:0571-7132
0571-7256
1573-8191
DOI:10.1007/BF01011230