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Table 2

Overview of the NS distribution in MW GCs and early theoretical GCs along with the theoretical number of MSPs.

GC Total NS Ini. M 106 M Ini. NS/M 106 M NS in GC Cur. M 106 M Cur. NS/M 106 M MSP obs, (theor1, theor2) NS in box 1000, 500, 250, 150 pc
NGC 362 5550 0.6 0.0092 690 0.252 0.0027 12 (25, 28) 0, 0, 0, 0
NGC 1904 13 550 1.0 0.0135 390 0.640 0.0006 1 (7, 16) 70, 0, 0, 0
NGC 6401 12 480 1.2 0.0104 650 0.121 0.0053 – (4, 11) 450, 100, 0, 0
NGC 6642 17 730 1.5 0.0118 2630 0.040 0.0666 – (7, 8) 950, 120, 0, 0
NGC 6681 13 340 1.3 0.0103 2630 0.011 0.0025 3 (31, 13) 60, 10, 10, 10, 10
NGC 6981 11 710 1.0 0.0117 980 0.008 0.0012 – (1, 4) 0, 0, 0, 0
NGC 7078 11 090 0.9 0.0123 2270 0.518 0.0044 15 (80, 102) 0, 0, 0, 0
HP 1 15 140 1.3 0.0116 520 0.137 0.0038 – (0, 8) 490, 70, 10, 10
Palomar 6 13 540 1.0 0.0135 180 0.008 0.0138 – (2, 8) 270, 40, 20, 10
Terzan 2 12 030 1.1 0.0109 840 0.008 0.0104 – (3, 7) 2010, 230, 0, 0
Terzan 4 17 070 1.3 0.0131 1460 0.181 0.0081 – (–, 11) 4630, 2190, 10, 10
Terzan 5 22 630 2.3 0.0098 2930 1.090 0.0027 49 (104, 215) 1470, 300, 30, 0

1 (50) Destr. GC 723 (36 150) 0.06e6 0.0120 5211, 2578, 723, 424

1 (4) Destr. GC 2153 (8609) 0.18e6 0.0119 1711, 725, 152, 95

Notes. Column 8 gives the number of observed MSPs in GCs (Observed MSPs: https://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/pfreire/GCpsr.html). In brackets: theoretically predicted number of MSPs according to Turk & Lorimer (2013) and Yin et al. (2024); see their Tables 4 and 5.

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