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view Abstract Citations (25) References (45) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS Formation of Planets around Pulsars Banit, M. ; Ruderman, M. A. ; Shaham, J. ; Applegate, J. H. Abstract Pulse arrival-time delays PSR 1257+ 12 suggest the existence of at least two planets in nearly circular orbits around it. In this paper we discuss different scenarios for the formation of planets in circular orbits around pulsars. Among other topics, we look in some detail at wind emission mechanisms that are particularly relevant to the process of evaporation of planets around pulsars and discuss their possible role in orbit circularization. We conclude that the formation of such planets may occur in a very late phase of low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) or binary millisecond pulsar (BMP) evolution. Evaporation of the companion star in these phases supplies matter to a circumbinary "excretion" disk in which the physical conditions, similar to those appropriate for the BMP 1957+20 system, may allow the formation of planets like those observed in PSR 1257+12. Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Pub Date: October 1993 DOI: 10.1086/173201 Bibcode: 1993ApJ...415..779B Keywords: ACCRETION; ACCRETION DISKS; STARS: PLANETARY SYSTEMS; STARS: PULSARS: GENERAL full text sources ADS | data products SIMBAD (3)
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