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| Paper: |
Five and a Half Roads to Form a Millisecond Pulsar |
| Volume: |
447, Evolution of Compact Binaries |
| Page: |
285 |
| Authors: |
Tauris, T. M. |
| Abstract: |
In this review I discuss the characteristics and the formation of all classes of millisecond pulsars (MSPs).
The main focus is on the stellar astrophysics of X-ray binaries
leading to the production of fully recycled MSPs with white dwarf (WD) or substellar semi-degenerate companions.
Depending on the nature of the companion star MSPs are believed to form
from either low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) or intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXBs).
For each of these two classes of X-ray binaries
the evolutionary status of the donor star
– or equivalently, the orbital period – at the onset of the Roche-lobe overflow (RLO) is the determining factor for
the outcome of the mass-transfer phase and thus the nature of the MSP formed.
Furthermore, the formation of binary MSPs is discussed in context of the PP-diagram, as well as new interpretations
of the Corbet diagram.
Finally, I present new models of Case A RLO of IMXBs in order to reproduce the two solar mass pulsar PSR J1614–2230. |
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