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Stellar Spin-up

Stellar Spin-Up is a theoretical construct in astrophysics that denotes the process by which a star increases its angular velocity due to the conservation of angular momentum during gravitational contraction or mass accretion.

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Stellar Spin Up

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Accretion by rotating magnetic neutron stars. III - Accretion torques and period changes in pulsating X-ray sources

Pranab Ghosh, Frederick K. Lamb · The Astrophysical Journal · 1979 · 1.1K citations

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Disk accretion by magnetic neutron stars

Pranab Ghosh, Frederick K. Lamb · The Astrophysical Journal · 1978 · 411 citations

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Spin Up in Neutron Stars : The Future of the Vela Pulsar

Gordon Baym, C. J. Pethick, David Pines et al. · Nature · 1969 · 409 citations

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The common envelope phase in the evolution of binary stars

Mario Livio, Noam Soker · The Astrophysical Journal · 1988 · 353 citations

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THE NEUTRON STAR MASS DISTRIBUTION

The Astrophysical Journal · 2013 · 319 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JF
    Jim Fuller

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 407 citations

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  2. SS
    Sergey S. Tsygankov

    University of Turku, Finland

    3 publications · 117 citations

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  3. NL
    N. Langer

    University of Bonn, Germany

    3 publications · 375 citations

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  4. SP
    Sean P. Matt

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 133 citations

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  5. JW
    J. Wilms

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    3 publications · 92 citations

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Institutions

229

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    32 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    907 citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. Space Research Institute

    Moscow, Russia

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    728 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    16 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    260 citations

  8. Université Grenoble Alpes

    Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    494 citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 48 publications · 5K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    22 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    15 publications · 636 citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    6 publications · 491 citations

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  5. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

    Repository · 3 publications · 63 citations

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