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Is NGC 6752 Hosting a Single or a Binary Black Hole?
Monica Colpi, Michela Mapelli, Andrea Possenti
The five millisecond pulsars that inhabit NGC 6752 display locations or accelerations remarkably different with respect to all other pulsars known in globular clusters. This may re…
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Spin-perpendicular kicks from evanescent binaries formed in the aftermath of rotational core-collapse and the nature of the observed bimodal distribution of pulsar peculiar velocities
Monica Colpi, Ira Wasserman
If rotating core collapse leads to the formation of a proto-neutron star binary in super-close orbit, then the lighter star, propelled toward the minimum stable mass, explodes. The…