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Pulsar kicks from neutrino oscillations

Alexander Kusenko, Gino Segre

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9811144

Abstract

Neutrino oscillations can explain the observed motion of pulsars. We show that two different models of neutrino emission from a cooling neutron star are in good quantitative agreement and predict the same order of magnitude for the pulsar kick velocity, consistent with the data.

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