Pulsar Velocities without Neutrino Mass

Abstract

We show that pulsar velocities may arise from anisotropic neutrino emission induced by resonant conversions of massless neutrinos in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The main ingredient is a small violation of weak universality and neither neutrino masses nor magnetic moments are required.

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, latex,revtex. Typos corrected and one new reference added