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Origin and evolution of magnetars
Lilia Ferrario, D. T. Wickramasinghe
We present a population synthesis study of the observed properties of the magnetars, which allows for X-ray selection effects, investigating the hypothesis that they are drawn from…
Binary Star Origin of High Field Magnetic White Dwarfs
C. A. Tout, D. T. Wickramasinghe, J. Liebert +2
White dwarfs with surface magnetic fields in excess of MG are found as isolated single stars and relatively more often in magnetic cataclysmic variables. Some 1,253 white dwarf…
The birth properties of Galactic millisecond radio pulsars
Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe
We model the population characteristics of the sample of millisecond pulsars within a distance of 1.5kpc.We find that for a braking index n=3, the birth magnetic field distribution…
High resolution spectra of bright central stars of bipolar planetary nebulae, and the question of magnetic shaping
T. -H. Lee, L. Stanghellini, L. Ferrario +1
We present ESO NTT high resolution echelle spectroscopy of the central stars (CSs) of eight southern bipolar planetary nebulae (PNe) selected for their asymmetry. Our aim was to de…
Modelling of isolated radio pulsars and magnetars on the fossil field hypothesis
Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe
We explore the hypothesis that the magnetic fields of neutron stars are of fossil origin. For parametrised models of the distribution of magnetic flux on the Main Sequence and of t…
The open cluster initial-final mass relationship and the high-mass tail of the white dwarf distribution
L. Ferrario, D. Wickramasinghe, J. Liebert +1
Recent studies of white dwarfs in open clusters have provided new constraints on the initial - final mass relationship (IFMR) for main sequence stars with masses in the range 2.5 -…