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Discovery and timing of pulsars in the globular cluster M13 with FAST

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-04-01 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We report the discovery of a binary millisecond pulsar (namely PSR J1641+3627F or M13F) in the globular cluster M13 (NGC 6205) and timing solutions of M13A to F using observations made with the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). PSR J1641+3627F has a spin period of 3.00 ms and an orbital period of 1.4 days. The most likely companion mass is 0.16 M_{\odot}. M13A to E all have short spin periods and small period derivatives. We also confirm that the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1641++3627E (also M13E) is a black widow with a companion mass around 0.02 M_{\odot}. We find that all the binary systems have low eccentricities compared to those typical for globular cluster pulsars and that they decrease with distance from the cluster core. This is consistent with what is expected as this cluster has a very low encounter rate per binary.

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@article{arxiv.2002.05938,
  title  = {Discovery and timing of pulsars in the globular cluster M13 with FAST},
  author = {Lin Wang and Bo Peng and B. W. Stappers and Kuo Liu and M. J. Keith and A. G. Lyne and Jiguang Lu and Ye-Zhao Yu and Feifei Kou and Jun Yan and Peng Jiang and Chengjin Jin and Di Li and Qi Li and Lei Qian and Qiming Wang and Youling Yue and Haiyan Zhang and Shuxin Zhang and Yan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.05938},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ