How rapidly do neutron stars spin at birth? Constraints from archival X-ray observations of extragalactic supernovae

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 384, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1638-1648

  Perna, Rosalba ^a   Soria, Roberto ^b   Pooley, Dave ^c   Stella, Luigi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pulsars: general; Supernova remnants; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LUMINANCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUPERNOVAE;

LUMINOSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; NEUTRON STARS; PULSARS: GENERAL; RADIO PULSARS; ROTATIONAL ENERGY; STARS: BE; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; X-RAY LUMINOSITY; X-RAY OBSERVATIONS; X-RAY:STARS;

PULSARS;

EID: 40249091763     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12821.x     Document Type: Article

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