WHY DO THE BRAKING INDICES OF PULSARS SPAN A RANGE OF MORE THAN 100 MILLIONS?
WHY DO THE BRAKING INDICES OF PULSARS SPAN A RANGE OF MORE THAN 100 MILLIONS?
Here we report that the observed braking indices of the 366 pulsars in the sample of Hobbs et al. range from about −108 to about +108 and are significantly correlated with their characteristic ages. Using the model of magnetic field evolution we developed previously based on the same data, we …