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Asymmetric Supernova Explosion Investigated by Geodetic Precession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

M. Kramer
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK
N. Wex
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
V. Kalogera
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
A. Karastergiou
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

Abstract

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We use observations and modelling of geodetic precession in the PSR B1913+16 system to obtain direct constraints on direction and magnitude of kicks imparted to the pulsar companion during the most recent supernova explosion. We find that the kick must have been directed almost perpendicular to the rotation axis of the progenitor star.

Type
Supernovae, Pulsars, and the Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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