From iau174 Thu Aug 10 22:45:10 1995 Received: by chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp (4.1/2.7W-utc1.9) id AA15244; Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:45:09 JST Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:45:09 JST From: iau174 Message-Id: <9508101345.AA15244@chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: makino Subject: [IAU 174 abstract 11 ] Status: R >From drukier@ast.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 10 22:43:47 1995 Received: from kyohou.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp by chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp (4.1/2.7W-utc1.9) id AA15201; Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:43:47 JST Received: from cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk by kyohou.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp (5.64/2.7W-utc1.9) id AA06846; Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:32:34 +0900 Return-Path: Received: from cass29.ast.cam.ac.uk by cass41 with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0sgXko-000CM7C; Thu, 10 Aug 95 14:34 BST Received: by cass29.ast.cam.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0sgXko-0003zBC; Thu, 10 Aug 95 14:34 BST Sender: drukier@ast.cam.ac.uk (Gordon Drukier) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:34:33 +0100 (BST) From: "G. Drukier" X-Sender: drukier@cass29 To: iau174_abstract@chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: abstract Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is the abstract for my poster "On the retention of Globular Cluster Neutron Stars" Fokker-Planck models are used to give estimates for the retention fractions for newly-born neutron stars in globular clusters as a function of kick velocity. These can be used to calculate the present day numbers of neutron stars in globular clusters and in addressing questions such as the origin of millisecond pulsars. As an example, the Population I kick velocity distribution of Lyne & Lorimer (1994) is used to estimate the retained fractions of neutron stars originating as single stars and in binary systems. For plausible initial conditions fewer than 4% of single neutron stars are retained. The retention fractions from binary systems can be 2 to 5 times higher. The dominant source of retained neutron stars is found to be through binary systems which remain bound after the first supernova, ie. high-mass X-ray binaries. The retained fraction decreases with a flatter initial mass function, but the retention fraction decreases more slowly than the number of progenitors increases. On balance, more progenitors give more neutron stars in the cluster. I look forward to seeing you in Tokyo. Gordon Drukier