I wished the article went into more detail about how it could form. My hazy memory of astronomy from college, I thought matter falling onto a neutron star from a companion star was how a type IIa supernova occurred. How would the neutron star be "swallowed" without triggering the nova?
I am not sure if we understand formation process of such stellar objects in general (Or possibly many processes). According to wikipedia one theory is slow orbit degradation of binary system containing neutron star and red dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_obje...
This makes me want to see a simulation of this happening.
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I wished the article went into more detail about how it could form. My hazy memory of astronomy from college, I thought matter falling onto a neutron star from a companion star was how a type IIa supernova occurred. How would the neutron star be "swallowed" without triggering the nova?
I am not sure if we understand formation process of such stellar objects in general (Or possibly many processes). According to wikipedia one theory is slow orbit degradation of binary system containing neutron star and red dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_obje...
This makes me want to see a simulation of this happening.