Speaker
John Bray
Description
The idea that neutron stars (and possibly black holes) could
get their peculiar
spacial velocities from conservation of momentum between the
ejected material and the
compact remnant mass has been around for many years. We
investigate this concept
using the BPASS v2 stellar evolution models and our own
compact remnant population
synthesis code. We present some of the predicted neutron
star and black hole
population sets using this `kick' and compare them to the
observational data.
