2018/05/24 by Onur Benli, Ünal Ertan, Unal Ertan
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Accretion disc #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Classical mechanics #Dipole #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Light curve #Magnetic dipole #Magnetic field #Moment (physics) #Period (music) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Rotation period #Spin (aerodynamics) #Stars #Supernova #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1399
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
arxiv created 2018/05/24 · openalex publication_date 2018/05/25 · arxiv updated 2018/06/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Among confirmed central compact objects (CCOs), only three sources have measured period and period derivatives. We have investigated possible evolutionary paths of these three CCOs in the fallback disc model. The model can account for the individual X-ray luminosities and rotational properties of the sources consistently with their estimated supernova ages. For these sources, reasonable model curves can be obtained with dipole field strengths ∼ a few × 109 G on the surface of the star. The model curves indicate that these CCOs were in the spin-up state in the early phase of evolution. The spin-down starts, while accretion is going on, at a time t ∼ 103–104 yr depending on the current accretion rate, period, and the magnetic dipole moment of the star. This implies that some of the CCOs with relatively long periods, weak dipole fields, and high X-ray luminosities could be strong candidates to show spin-up behaviour if they indeed evolve with fallback discs.