Neutron stars initial spin period distribution

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We analyze different possibilities to explain the wide initial spin period distribution of radio pulsars presented by Noutsos et al.

• (2013).
• With a population synthesis modeling we demonstrate that magnetic field decay can be used to interpret the difference between the recent results by Noutsos et al.
• (2013) and those by Popov & Turolla (2012), where a much younger population of NSs associated with supernova remnants with known ages has been studied.