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X-ray Galactic Sources and Binary Radiopulsars as Probes of the Initial Mass Ratio f(q) and Kick Velocity w

 

Now we present the topographical map for the COOC criterion calculated for both galactic X-ray sources taken from Table 4 and binary pulsar species from Table 6 in coordinates the initial mass ratio exponent tex2html_wrap_inline8881 - mean kick velocity tex2html_wrap_inline10668 (Figure 26). The calculations were performed for both the maxwellian (equation 7.4.1) - (left-hand panel) and Lyne and Lorimer's (equation 7.4.2)  - (right-hand panel) distributions for the kick velocity w. The innermost curve corresponds to a half-an-order uncertainty between observations and calculations (COOC = 3.3).

As we have shown just above, the binary pulsars' statistics favor lower kick velocities, whereas Galactic X-ray luminosity acts in the opposite direction. This largely defines the shape of the curves in Figure 26. A wide kick velocity distribution (like Lyne and Lorimer's) allows a wider region of parameters tex2html_wrap_inline8881 and w for the same comparison level between observations and calculations. If one takes Lyne and Lorimer's kick with tex2html_wrap_inline10820  km stex2html_wrap_inline8853 , the feasible initial mass ratio exponent can range from tex2html_wrap_inline89450 to 1.5 within a seven times uncertainty between the observations and calculations.

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Figure 26: The COOC criterion for X-ray galactic sources and binary radiopulsars versus the initial mass ratio exponent tex2html_wrap_inline8881 and mean space kick velocity for different kick velocity distributions. 

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Mike E. Prokhorov
Sat Feb 22 18:38:13 MSK 1997