Evolution towards and beyond accretion-induced collapse of massive white dwarfs and formation of millisecond pulsars

Thomas M. Tauris, Debashis Sanyal, Sung-Chul Yoon +1

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are generally believed to be old neutron stars (NSs), formed via type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae (SNe), which have been spun up to high rotation rates…