Recycled Pulsars: Spins, Masses and Ages

TL;DR

This paper reviews recycled pulsars, focusing on their spins, magnetic fields, and masses, and discusses how these properties reveal insights into binary star evolution and the recycling process.

Contribution

It provides a summary of observed distributions and current understanding of the pulsar recycling process, highlighting the use of pulsar properties as fossil records.

Findings

Distribution of pulsar spin periods, B-fields, and masses analyzed.

Recycling process links pulsar properties to binary evolution.

Current models explain observed property distributions.

Abstract

Recycled pulsars are mainly characterized by their spin periods, B-fields and masses. All these quantities are affected by previous interactions with a companion star in a binary system. Therefore, we can use these quantities as fossil records and learn about binary evolution. Here, I briefly review the distribution of these observed quantities and summarize our current understanding of the pulsar recycling process.