Searching for debris disks around isolated pulsars

2014/02/28 by Zhongxiang Wang
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Magnetar #Millimeter #Millisecond pulsar #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Stars #Supernova #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.pss.2014.04.007

23 pages, 3 figures, based on an invited talk at the Cosmic Dust VI conference, significant comments from referees incorporated, accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science

arxiv created 2014/04/08 · openalex publication_date 2014/04/18 · arxiv updated 2015/06/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Different pieces of observational evidence suggest the existence of disks around isolated neutron stars. Such disks could be formed from supernova fallback when neutron stars are born in core-collapse supernova explosions. Efforts have been made to search for disks around different classes of pulsars, which include millisecond pulsars, young neutron star classes (magnetars, central compact objects, and X-ray dim isolated neutron stars), and regular radio pulsars. We review the main results from observations at wavelengths of from optical to sub-millimeter/millimeter.

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