Speaker
Thomas Tauris
(Uni. Bonn)
Description
Radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been spun-up to very high rotation frequencies
via accretion of mass and angular momentum from a companion star in a binary system.
In this talk, I will review the formation of MSPs and discuss recent observational
and theoretical challenges in understanding their formation and evolution via the
standard recycling scenario. I will discuss MSP properties like spin periods, masses and
orbital characteristics, and also briefly discuss new developments related to our
understanding of the formation of double neutron star systems.
Author
Thomas Tauris
(Uni. Bonn)
