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Orbital Parameters of Binary Radio Pulsars : Revealing Their Structure, Formation, Evolution and Dynamic History
Orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars'
formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects.
Advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters
accurately in most of the cases. Determination of post-Keplerian parameters of
double neutron star binaries (especially of the double pulsar) provide clean
tests of GTR and in the future may lead us to constrain the dense matter EoS.
For binary pulsars with MS or WD companions, knowledge about the values of the
orbital parameters as well as of the spin periods and the masses of the pulsars
and the companions might be useful to understand the evolutionary history of
the systems. As accreting neutron star binaries lead to orbit circularization
due to the tidal coupling during accretion, their descendants i.e. binary MSPs
are expected to be in circular orbits. On the other hand, dense stellar
environments inside globular clusters (GCs) cause different types of
interactions of single stars with pulsar binaries. These interactions can
impart high eccentricities to the pulsar binaries. So it is quite common to get
eccentric millisecond pulsar binaries in GCs and we find that "fly-by" causes
intermediate values of eccentricities while "exchange" or "merger" causes high
values of eccentricities. We also show that "ionization" is not much effective
in the present stage of GCs. Even in the absence of such kinds of stellar
interactions, a millisecond pulsar can have an eccentric orbit as a result of
Kozai resonance if the pulsar binary is a member of a hierarchical triple
system. PSR J1903+0327 is the only one eccentric millisecond pulsar binary in
the galactic disk where stellar interactions are negligible. The possibility of
this system to be a member of a hierarchical triple system or past association
of a GC have been studied and found to be less likely.Comment: Invited chapter in "Pulsars: Theory, Categories and Applications",
Editor: Alexander D. Morozov, 2010, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN:
978-1-61668-919-3; Typos correcte
Prospects of constraining the dense matter equation of state from the timing analysis of pulsars in double neutron star binaries: the cases of PSR J0737-3039A and PSR J1757-1854
The Lense-Thirring effect from spinning neutron stars in double neutron star
binaries contribute to the periastron advance of the orbit. This extra term
involves the moment of inertia of the neutron stars. Moment of inertia, on the
other hand, depends on the mass and spin of the neutron star as well as the
equation of state of the matter. If at least one member of the double neutron
star binary (better the faster one) is a radio pulsar, then accurate timing
analysis might lead to the estimation of the contribution of the Lense-Thirring
effect to the periastron advance, which will lead to the measurement of the
moment of inertia of the pulsar. Combination of the knowledge on the values of
the moment of inertia, the mass, and the spin of the pulsar, will give a new
constraint on the equation of state. Pulsars in double neutron star binaries
are the best for this purpose as short orbits and moderately high
eccentricities make the Lense-Thirring effect substantial, whereas tidal
effects are negligible (unlike pulsars with main sequence or white-dwarf
binaries). The most promising pulsars are PSR J0737-3039A and PSR J1757-1854.
The spin-precession of pulsars due to the misalignment between the spin and the
orbital angular momentum vectors affect the contribution of the Lense-Thirring
effect to the periastron advance. This effect has been explored for both PSR
J0737-3039A and PSR J1757-1854, and as the misalignment angles for both of
these pulsars are small, the variation in the Lense-Thirring term is not much.
However, to extract the Lense-Thirring effect from the observed rate of the
periastron advance, more accurate timing solutions including precise proper
motion and distance measurements are essential.Comment: To appear in the special issue of `Universe' dedicated to the
conference: "Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram VI" held at The Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia; during 26 - 29
September, 201
Factors affecting Child Labour in India
Child labour in India is a critical socio-economic problem that needs special attention of policy makers. In order to make effective policies to reduce child labour it is important to understand the specific factors that affect it in different situations. The paper empirically examines these factors across 35 Indian states and union territories at three levels of aggregation: total population, rural/urban, and male/female. The results showed that education, fertility, and workforce participation are the major influencing factors in our models. Interestingly, impact of economic indicators of poverty and income differed among total, rural, urban, male, and female population. The explanatory powers of models showed large variations across different levels of aggregation and were stronger for total, rural and female population.
The detectability of eccentric binary pulsars
Studies of binary pulsars provide insight into various theories of physics.
Detection of such systems is challenging due to the Doppler modulation of the
pulsed signal caused by the orbital motion of the pulsar. We investigated the
loss of sensitivity in eccentric binary systems for different types of
companions. This reduction of sensitivity should be considered in future
population synthesis models for binary pulsars. This loss can be recovered
partially by employing the `acceleration search' algorithm and even better by
using the `acceleration-jerk search' algorithm.Comment: 2 pages. To appear in the proceeding of "The Metrewavelength Sky
Conference" held at NCRA-TIFR, Pune, from December 9-13 2013, to mark 50
years of radio astronomy research at the Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR), as well as 10 years of operation of the Giant Metrewave
Radio Telescope (GMRT) as an international observator
Evidence for strange stars from joint observation of harmonic absorption bands and of redshift
From recent reports on terrestrial heavy ion collision experiments it appears
that one may not obtain information about the existence of asymptotic freedom
(AF) and chiral symmetry restoration (CSR) for quarks of QCD at high density.
This information may still be obtained from compact stars - if they are made up
of strange quark matter. Very high gravitational redshift lines (GRL), seen
from some compact stars, seem to suggest high ratios of mass and radius (M/R)
for them. This is suggestive of strange stars (SS) and can in fact be fitted
very well with SQM equation of state deduced with built in AF and CSR. In some
other stars broad absorption bands appear at about ~ 0.3 keV and multiples
thereof, that may fit in very well with resonance with harmonic compressional
breathing mode frequencies of these SS. Emission at these frequencies are also
observed in six stars. If these two features of large GRL and BAB were observed
together in a single star, it would strengthen the possibility for the
existence of SS in nature and would vindicate the current dogma of AF and CSR
that we believe in QCD. Recently, in 4U 1700-24, both features appear to be
detected, which may well be interpreted as observation of SS - although the
group that analyzed the data did not observe this possibility. We predict that
if the shifted lines, that has been observed, are from neon with GRL shift z =
0.4 - then the compact object emitting it is a SS of mass 1.2 M_sun and radius
7 km. In addition the fit to the spectrum leaves a residual with broad dips at
0.35 keV and multiples thereof, as in 1E1207-5209 which is again suggestive of
SS.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the MNRA
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