Astrophysicists Determine How Massive Neutron Stars Are When They Are Born

Astrophysicists Determine How Massive Neutron Stars Are When They Are Born
An artist’s impression of a neutron star. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Astrophysicists from China and Australia have found that the birth masses of neutron stars can be described by a unimodal distribution that smoothly turns on at 1.1 solar masses and peaks at 1.27 solar masses, before declining as a steep power law.

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 Astrophysicists from China and Australia have found that the birth masses of neutron stars can be described by a unimodal distribution that smoothly turns on at 1.1 solar masses and peaks at 1.27 solar masses, before declining as a steep power law.
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