The minimum rotation period of millisecond pulsars

Abstract

A simple and natural explanation for the minimum period of millisecond pulsars follows from a correlation between the accretion rate and the frozen surface dipole magnetic field resulting from Ohmic diffusion through the neutron star crust in initial stages of accretion in low mass X-ray binaries.

arXiv comment3 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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