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We present a simple novel method for determining the orbital parameters of binary pulsars. This method works with any sort of orbital sampling, no matter how sparse, provided that information on the period derivatives is available with each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. C. Freire , M. Kramer , A. G. Lyne

Relativistic binary pulsars orbiting white dwarfs and neutron stars have already provided excellent tests of gravity. However, despite observational efforts, a pulsar orbiting a black hole has remained elusive. One possible explanation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Vishnu Balakrishnan , David Champion , Ewan Barr , Michael Kramer , V. Venkatraman Krishnan , Ralph P. Eatough , Rahul Sengar , Matthew Bailes

Binary pulsars provide an excellent system for testing general relativity because of their intrinsic rotational stability and the precision with which radio observations can be used to determine their orbital dynamics. Measurements of the…

Orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars' formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects. Advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters accurately in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Manjari Bagchi

We report the discovery of the binary millisecond pulsar J0514-4002A, which is the first known pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 1851 and the first pulsar discovered using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The pulsar has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paulo C. Freire , Yashwant Gupta , Scott M. Ransom , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we have discovered PSR J0514-4002A, a binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 1851. This pulsar has a rotational period of 4.99 ms and the most eccentric pulsar orbit yet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. C. Freire , Y. Gupta , S. M. Ransom , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

We present results of more than three decades of timing measurements of the first known binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16. Like most other pulsars, its rotational behavior over such long time scales is significantly affected by small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-08 Joel M. Weisberg , David J. Nice , Joseph H. Taylor

Binary radio pulsars are superb tools for mapping binary orbits, because of the precision of the pulse timing method (Taylor and Weisberg 1989). To date, all orbital parameters for binary pulsars have been derived from observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Bell , M. S. Bessell , B. W. Stappers , M. Bailes , V. M. Kaspi

We present relativistic analyses of 9257 measurements of times-of-arrival from the first binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16, acquired over the last thirty-five years. The determination of the 'Keplerian' orbital elements plus two relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 Joel M. Weisberg , Yuping Huang

It is difficult to discover pulsars via their gamma-ray emission because current instruments typically detect fewer than one photon per million rotations. This creates a significant computing challenge for isolated pulsars, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 L. Nieder , B. Allen , C. J. Clark , H. J. Pletsch

We report the detection of a new 3.06 ms binary pulsar in the globular cluster NGC6544 using a Fourier-domain ``acceleration'' search. With an implied companion mass of ~0.01 solar masses and an orbital period of only P_b~1.7 hours, it…

We have made timing observations of binary pulsar PSR B1534+12 with radio telescopes at Arecibo, Green Bank, and Jodrell Bank. By combining our new observations with data collected up to seven years earlier, we obtain a significantly…

We present a method for finding binaries among pulsating stars that were observed by the Kepler Mission. We use entire four-year light curves to accurately measure the frequencies of the strongest pulsation modes, then track the pulsation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Simon J. Murphy , Timothy R. Bedding , Hiromoto Shibahashi , Donald W. Kurtz , Hans Kjeldsen

We present the latest developments to the phase modulation method for finding binaries among pulsating stars. We demonstrate how the orbital elements of a pulsating binary star can be obtained analytically, that is, without converting time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Simon J. Murphy , Hiromoto Shibahashi

Binary pulsar systems are superb probes of stellar and binary evolution and the physics of extreme environments. In a survey with the Arecibo telescope, we have found PSR J1903+0327, a radio pulsar with a rotational period of 2.15 ms in a…

The period, mass ratio, eccentricity, and other orbital parameters are fundamental for investigating binary star evolution. However, the number of binaries with known orbital parameters remains limited. Utilizing the LAMOST-MRS survey, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Sufen Guo , Mikhail Kovalev , Jiao Li , Guoliang Lu , Shi Jia , Zhenwei Li , Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Mingkuan Yang , Tongyu He , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

The first eclipsing binary pulsar, PSR B1957+20, was discovered in 1987. Since then, 13 other eclipsing low-mass binary pulsars have been found, 12 of these are in globular clusters. In this paper we list the known eclipsing binary pulsars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Paulo C. C. Freire

Continuous and precise space-based photometry has made it possible to measure the orbital frequency modulation of pulsating stars in binary systems with extremely high precision over long time spans. Frequency modulation caused by binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Hiromoto Shibahashi , Donald W. Kurtz , Simon J. Murphy

I describe a computationally simple, efficient, and sensitive method to search long observations for pulsars in binary systems. The technique looks for orbitally induced sidebands in the power spectrum around a nominal spin frequency,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott M. Ransom

Pulsars in relativistic binary systems have emerged as fantastic natural laboratories for testing theories of gravity, the most prominent example being the double pulsar, PSR J0737$-$3039. The HTRU-South Low Latitude pulsar survey…

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