Searching for Debris Disks around Isolated Pulsars

Abstract

Different pieces of observational evidence suggest the existence of disks around isolated neutron stars. Such disks could be formed from supernova fallback when neutron stars are born in core-collapse supernova explosions. Efforts have been made to search for disks around different classes of pulsars, which include millisecond pulsars, young neutron star classes (magnetars, central compact objects, and X-ray dim isolated neutron stars), and regular radio pulsars. We review the main results from observations at wavelengths of from optical to sub-millimeter/millimeter.

23 pages, 3 figures, based on an invited talk at the Cosmic Dust VI conference, significant comments from referees incorporated, accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science

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