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Globular clusters contain a unique pulsar population, with many exotic systems that can form only in their dense stellar environments. The leap in sensitivity of the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in India, especially at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 T. Gautam , A. Ridolfi , P. C. C. Freire , R. S. Wharton , Y. Gupta , S. M. Ransom , L. S. Oswald , M. Kramer , M. E. DeCesar

We report the discovery of PSR J1909-3744, a 2.95 millisecond pulsar in a nearly circular 1.53 day orbit. Its narrow pulse width of 43 microseconds allows pulse arrival times to be determined with great accuracy. We have spectroscopically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. A. Jacoby , M. Bailes , M. H. van Kerkwijk , S. Ord , A. Hotan , S. R. Kulkarni , S. B. Anderson

We report the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar with a pulsating white dwarf companion. Following the recent discoveries of pulsations in extremely low-mass (ELM, <0.3 Msol) white dwarfs (WDs), we targeted ELM WD companions to two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mukremin Kilic , J. J. Hermes , A. Gianninas , Warren R. Brown

We have discovered a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar binary near the center of the error ellipse of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J0940.3-7610. The candidate counterpart is a variable optical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Laura Chomiuk , Kristen C. Dage , Laura Shishkovsky

PSR J1928+1815 is a 10.55 ms millisecond pulsar in a 3.6 hr orbit with a massive ($1.0$-$1.6\,M_{\odot}$) companion that produces extended radio eclipses. The companion, proposed to be a stripped helium star, is undetected in optical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Pranav Nagarajan , Kareem El-Badry , Jim Fuller , Yunlang Guo , Thomas M. Tauris

We report on radio timing and multiwavelength observations of the 4.66 ms redback pulsar J1048+2339, which was discovered in an Arecibo search targeting the Fermi-LAT source 3FGLJ1048.6+2338. Two years of timing allowed us to derive precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 J. S. Deneva , P. S. Ray , F. Camilo , J. P. Halpern , K. Wood , H. T. Cromartie , E. Ferrara , M. Kerr , S. M. Ransom , M. T. Wolff , K. C. Chambers , E. A. Magnier

With recent and archival Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) X-ray measurements of the heavily obscured X-ray pulsar EXO 1722-363 (IGR J17252-3616), we carried out a pulse timing analysis to determine the orbital solution for the first time.…

We report the discovery of a previously unidentified pulsar as part of a radio campaign to identify neutron star companions to low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs) using the Robert C.\ Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). PSR J0802-0955, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-18 Jeff J. Andrews , Marcel A. Agüeros , Fernando Camilo , Mukremin Kilic , Alex Gianninas , Warren Brown , Craig Heinke

We report on an {unusually} bright observation of PSR J1720$-$0533 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The pulsar is in a black widow system that {was discovered by the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 S. Q. Wang , J. B. Wang , N. Wang , J. M. Yao , G. Hobbs , S. Dai , F. F. Kou , C. C. Miao , D. Li , Y. Feng , S. J. Dang , D. H. Wang , P. Wang , J. P. Yuan , C. M. Zhang , L. Zhang , S. B. Zhang , W. W. Zhu

For 80 days in 2017, the Kepler Space Telescope continuously observed the transitional millisecond pulsar system PSR J1023+0038 in its accreting state. We present analyses of the 59 second cadence data, focusing on investigations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 M. R. Kennedy , C. J. Clark , G. Voisin , R. P. Breton

We present X-ray observations of the "redback" eclipsing radio millisecond pulsar and candidate radio pulsar/X-ray binary transition object PSR J1723-2837. The X-ray emission from the system is predominantly non-thermal and exhibits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Slavko Bogdanov , Paolo Esposito , Fronefield Crawford , Andrea Possenti , Maura A. McLaughlin , Paulo Freire

We report the analysis of a binary blue straggler in NGC 6752 with a short orbital period of 0.315 d and a W UMA-type light curve. We use photometric data spanning 13 years to place limits on the mass ratio (0.15<q<0.35), luminosity ratio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Kaluzny , M. Rozyczka , I. B. Thompson , K. Zloczewski

Milli-second pulsars (MSPs) are rapidly spinning neutron stars, with spin periods P_s <= 10 ms, which have been most likely spun up after a phase of matter accretion from a companion star. In this work we present the results of the search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 V. Testa , R. P. Mignani , C. Pallanca , A. Corongiu , F. R. Ferraro

An unidentified $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1838.2+3223 has been proposed as a pulsar candidate. We present optical time-series multi-band photometry of its likely optical companion obtained with the 2.1-m telescope of Observatorio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 D. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Kirichenko , A. V. Karpova , Yu. A. Shibanov , S. V. Zharikov , M. R. Gilfanov , C. Perez Tórtola

We have carried out high-precision timing observations of the eclipsing binary PSR J2051-0827 in the 3.3 years since its discovery. These data indicate that the orbital period is decreasing at a rate of dPb/dt = (-11+-1)X10^-12. If secular,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. W. Stappers , M. Bailes , R. N. Manchester , J. S. Sandhu , M. Toscano

PSR J1738+0333 is one of the four millisecond pulsars known to be orbited by a white dwarf companion bright enough for optical spectroscopy. Of these, it has the shortest orbital period, making it especially interesting for a range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-11 J. Antoniadis , M. H. van Kerkwijk , D. Koester , P. C. C. Freire , N. Wex , T. M. Tauris , M. Kramer , C. G. Bassa

PSR J1951+2837 is a nearby pulsar with a period of 7.334 s and dispersion measure of DM = 2.9 $\pm$ 0.6 pc cm$^{-3}$, located about 200 or 300 pc from the Sun. It occasionally radiates bright pulses and has been observed by the Large Phased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 T. V. Smirnova , D. J. Zhou , M. A. Kitaeva , S. A. Andrianov , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , J. L. Han , S. A. Tyul'bashev

Binary radio pulsar system J0737-3039 provides an exceptional opportunity to study innermost structure of pulsar magnetospheres due to very tight orbit, favorable directions of pulsars' rotation and magnetic axes and extremely fortuitous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Maxim Lyutikov

We present a deep Chandra X-ray Observatory study of the peculiar binary radio millisecond pulsar PSR J1740--5340 and candidate millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular cluster NGC 6397. The X-rays from PSR J1740--5340 appear to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Slavko Bogdanov , Maureen van den Berg , Craig O. Heinke , Haldan N. Cohn , Phyllis M. Lugger , Jonathan E. Grindlay

We report the results of pulsar searches in ten globular clusters using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. One new binary millisecond pulsar has been discovered in NGC 5986 with P=2.6 ms, P_orb=1.3 d, and a minimum companion mass of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-13 Ryan S. Lynch , Scott M. Ransom