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We describe the first X-ray observations of five short orbital period ($P_B < 1$ day), $\gamma$-ray emitting, binary millisecond pulsars. Four of these, PSRs J0023+0923, J1124$-$3653, J1810+1744, and J2256$-$1024 are `black-widow' pulsars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Gentile , M. Roberts , M. McLaughlin , F. Camilo , J. Hessels , M. Kerr , S. Ransom , P. Ray , I. Stairs

Spitzer observations of the neutron star (ultra-compact) X-ray binary (XRB) 4U 0614+091 with the Infrared Array Camera reveal emission of non-thermal origin in the range 3.5-8 um. The mid-infrared spectrum is well fit by a power law with…

We analyze the observations of the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63 with the RXTE and INTEGRAL observatories in a wide X-ray (3-100 keV) energy band during its intense outbursts in 1999 and 2004. The energy of the fundamental harmonic of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov , E. M. Churazov , R. A. Sunyaev

Eclipsing pulsar binaries and binaries with a high mass companion are ideal systems for studying and understanding the properties of plasma in magneto-ionic environments. In this work, the first paper of a series, we present MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Jaikhomba Singha , Dongzi Li , Marisa Geyer , Maciej Serylak , Federico Abbate , Senate Lekomola , Robert Main , Andrea Possenti , Amanda Weltman

We report on observations of the sixth accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, IGR J00291+5934, with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. The source is a faint, recurrent X-ray transient initially identified by INTEGRAL. The 599 Hz (1.67 ms)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Galloway , C. B. Markwardt , E. H. Morgan , D. Chakrabarty , T. E. Strohmayer

Our understanding of the elusive radio-pulsar emission mechanism would be deepened by determining the locality of the emission. Pulsars in which the two poles interact can potentially help solve this challenge. We here report the discovery…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 X. Song , P. Weltevrede , J. van Leeuwen , G. Wright , M. Keith

The millisecond pulsar PSR J1740-5340 in the globular cluster NGC 6397 shows radio eclipses over ~40% of its binary orbit. A first Chandra observation revealed indications for the X-ray flux being orbit dependent as well. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. H. H. Huang , W. Becker

We present an analysis of X-ray, Ultraviolet and optical/near-IR photometric data of the transitional millisecond pulsar binary XSSJ12270-4859, obtained at different epochs after the transition to a rotation-powered radio pulsar state. The…

Hot Jupiters have been proposed as a likely population of low frequency radio sources due to electron cyclotron maser emission of similar nature to that detected from the auroral regions of magnetized solar system planets. Such emission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Hallinan , S. K. Sirothia , A. Antonova , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , S. Bourke , J. G. Doyle , J. Hartman , A. Golden

While the non-thermal radio through at least near-infrared emission in the hard state in X-ray binaries (XRBs) is known to originate in jets, the source of the non-thermal X-ray component is still uncertain. We introduce a new model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Asaf Pe'er , Sera Markoff

We present polarization observations of the radio emitting magnetar AXP J1810-197. Using simultaneous multi-frequency observations performed at 1.4, 4.9 and 8.4 GHz, we obtained polarization information for single pulses and the average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , A. Jessner , A. G. Lyne , C. A. Jordan

Some intra-day variable, compact extra-galactic radio sources show brightness temperatures severely exceeding 10^{12} K, the limit set by catastrophic inverse-Compton (IC) cooling in sources of incoherent synchrotron radiation. The…

A class of low-mass X-ray binary sources are known to be both X-ray burst sources and millisecond pulsars at the same time. A new source of this class was discovered by High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) on 14 June 2005 as a source…

Millisecond X-ray pulsars consist of a rapidly-spinning neutron star accreting from a low-mass stellar companion, and are the long-sought evolutionary progenitors of millisecond radio pulsars, as well as promising candidate sources for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Duncan K Galloway

PSR J0108-1431 is a nearby, 170 Myr old, very faint radio pulsar near the "pulsar death line" in the P-Pdot diagram. We observed the pulsar field with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and detected a point source (53 counts in a 30 ks exposure,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. G. Pavlov , O. Kargaltsev , J. A. Wong , G. P. Garmire

Many X-ray accreting pulsars have a soft excess below 10 keV. This feature has been detected also in faint sources and at low luminosity levels, suggesting that it is an ubiquitous phenomenon. In the case of the high luminosity pulsars (Lx…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 N. La Palombara , L. Sidoli , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

ESO 4m class telescope and VLT deep imaging of the isolated neutron star RX J0720.4-3125 reveals a proper motion of mu = 97 +/-12 mas/yr and a blue U-B color index. We show that a neutron star atmosphere model modified to account for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Motch , V. E. Zavlin , F. Haberl

In 2003 a previously unpulsed Einstein and ROSAT source cataloged as soft and dim (Lx of few 10^33 ergs) thermal emitting object, namely XTE J1810-197, was identified as the first unambiguous transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar. Two years…

We report on observations of the unusual neutron-star binary system FIRST J102347.6+003841 carried out using the XMM-Newton satellite. This system consists of a radio millisecond pulsar in an 0.198-day orbit with a ~0.2 solar-mass…

We present the first X-ray polarimetry observations of a redback millisecond pulsar binary, PSR J1723-2837, with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We conduct a spectro-polarimetric analysis combining IXPE data with archival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Michela Negro , Haocheng Zhang , Niccolò Di Lalla , Slavko Bogdanov , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Noel Klingler , Jeremy Hare