Eccentricities of millisecond pulsars with intermediate-mass progenitors

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract One channel to form millisecond pulsars with CO white dwarf companions is through the stable Roche-lobe overflow of intermediate-mass (3 M⊙ ≲ M ≲ 5 M⊙) stars at the end of the main sequence (Case A) or the beginning of the hydrogen shell burning phase (Case B). We reproduce previous numerical calculations of this channel and supplement them with a simple analytical model that relates the final orbital period P(M, mwd) to the white dwarf’s mass and to its progenitor’s initial mass M. We also theoretically calculate for the first time the eccentricity e in this process, which is set by the fluctuating gravitational quadrupole moment of the progenitor’s convective envelope during Roche-lobe detachment. Intermediate-mass progenitors detach when their non-degenerate cores ignite helium, in contrast to low-mass (M ≲ 2 M⊙) stars with degenerate cores that detach when their envelopes become too light to support a burning shell. Despite the order of magnitude higher envelope mass at detachment me in our case, the eccentricity is barely affected because $e\propto m_{\rm e}^{1/6}$, explaining why intermediate-mass (mwd ≲ 0.6 M⊙) CO white dwarfs have similar eccentricities to lower mass helium white dwarfs. Massive CO and ONe white dwarfs (mwd ≳ 0.6 M⊙), on the other hand, probably formed through a different channel of unstable Roche-lobe overflow during helium shell burning (Case C), followed by common envelope inspiral. The measured eccentricities of these massive white dwarfs remain to be explained.
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Authors Hagai Bareli, Sivan Ginzburg
Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag961
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag961
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