ON THE VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF RADIO PULSARS AT BIRTH

Authors
HARTMAN JW
Citation
Jw. Hartman, ON THE VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF RADIO PULSARS AT BIRTH, Astronomy and astrophysics, 322(1), 1997, pp. 127-130
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astronomy and astrophysics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00046361
Volume
322
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
127 - 130
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6361(1997)322:1<127:OTVDOR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We investigate the transverse velocity distribution of young (< 3 Myr) radio pulsars, using pulsar population syn thesis techniques. We find that, after taking into account errors in proper motion measurements, an initial velocity distribution that has many more pulsars at low ve locities than the distribution proposed by Lyne & Lorimer (1994) can p roduce a transverse velocity distribution that describes the observed distribution equally well.