Galactic Collapsed Objects
arXiv:astro-ph/0502124 · doi:10.1393/ncb/i2005-10118-0
Abstract
Our Galaxy contains some 10^8 to 10^9 collapsed objects (neutron stars and black holes). Our knowledge of them is based on less than 2000 objects identified as radio pulsars, members of X-ray binaries and magnetars. In this review I shall briefly discuss some of their properties such as masses, magnetic fields and rotation.
15 pages; presented at Vulcano Workshop 2004; to be published in "Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics", 2005; corrected typos