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The spin behaviour of the neutron star in the newly discovered young Be/X-ray long-period pulsar SXP 1062 is discussed. The star is observed to rotate with the period of 1062s, and spin-down at the rate ~ - 2.6 \times 10^{-12} Hz s^{-1}. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. R. Ikhsanov

We report the discovery of PSR J1757$-$1854, a 21.5-ms pulsar in a highly-eccentric, 4.4-h orbit around a neutron star (NS) companion. PSR J1757$-$1854 exhibits some of the most extreme relativistic parameters of any known pulsar, including…

The high frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) in the X-ray spectra of the millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 are under consideration. By application of the relativistic precession (RP) model an attempt is made to approximate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Radostina P. Tasheva , Ivan Zh. Stefanov

We present the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope discovery of the highly eccentric binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1835$-$3259A in the Fermi Large Area Telescope-detected globular cluster NGC 6652. Timing over one orbit yields the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Megan E. DeCesar , Scott M. Ransom , David L. Kaplan , Paul S. Ray , Aaron M. Geller

Pulsar timing of double neutron star (DNS) systems is one of the best methodologies to study the neutron star masses distribution. Here we report the discovery of a double neutron star system PSR J0641+0448 in the Five-hundred-meter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Z. L. Yang , J. L. Han , P. F. Wang , C. Wang , N. N. Cai , W. C. Jing , W. Q. Su , T. Wang , J. Xu , Yi Yan , D. J. Zhou

We report here a series of observations of the interstellar scintillation (ISS) of the double pulsar J0737$-$3039 over the course of 18 months. As in earlier work (Coles et al., 2005) the basic phenomenon is the variation in the ISS caused…

Neutron stars in close binary systems have the potential to spin up to millisecond periods due to the accretion of matter and angular momentum from their low-mass companions. In later stages of this process, they sometimes start to swing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 S. V. Karpov , Artyom S. Tanashkin , G. M. Beskin , V. L. Plokhotnichenko , Y. A. Shibanov , D. A. Zyuzin

Radio pulsars in short-period eccentric binary orbits can be used to study both gravitational dynamics and binary evolution. The binary system containing PSR J1141$-$6545 includes a massive white dwarf (WD) companion that formed before the…

A deep (~70%) and extended (~150 days) eclipse was seen towards the young multiple stellar system V773 Tau in 2010. We interpret it as due to the passage of a circumbinary disk around the B components moving in front of the A components.…

We observed PSR B1259-63, a young non-accreting pulsar orbiting around a Be star SS 2883, eight times with the Suzaku satellite in 2007, to characterize the X-ray emission arising from the interaction between a pulsar relativistic wind and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Yasunobu Uchiyama , Takaaki Tanaka , Tadayuki Takahashi , Koji Mori , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

(abridged) PSR J1903+0327, a millisecond pulsar in an eccentric (e = 0.44) 95-day orbit with a (~ 1Msun) companion poses a challenge to our understanding of stellar evolution in binary and multiple-star systems. Here we describe optical and…

In view of the recent measurement of the scintillation velocity for PSR J0737-3039, we examine the complete set of constraints imposed on the pulsar B natal kicks (magnitude and orientation) and predict the most favorable pulsar kick…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Willems , V. Kalogera , M. Henninger

An exact expression for the rate of dragging of inertial frames (Lense-Thirring (LT) precession) in a general stationary spacetime, is derived without invoking the weak field approximation. This expression, when used for the Kerr metric,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Parthasarathi Majumdar

We present spectral and timing analysis of NuSTAR observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar 2RXP J130159.6-635806. The source was serendipitously observed during a campaign focused on the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63 and was later…

In binary radio pulsars with a main-sequence star companion, the spin-induced quadrupole moment of the companion gives rise to a precession of the binary orbit. As a first approximation one can model the secular evolution caused by this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Wex

The close correlation observed between emission state and spin-down rate change of pulsars has many implications both for the magnetospheric physics and the neutron star interior. The middle-aged pulsar PSR J0738$-$4042, which had been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 S. Q. Zhou , E. Gügercinoğlu , J. P. Yuan , M. Y. Ge , C. Yu , C. M. Zhang , J. Zhang , Z. W. Feng , C. Q. Ye

Transiting exoplanetary systems are surpassingly important among the planetary systems since they provide the widest spectrum of information for both the planet and the host star. If a transiting planet is on an eccentric orbit, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 András Pál , Bence Kocsis

We consider the observational effects of a deficit angle, w, in the topology of the solar system and in the 'double pulsar' system PSR J0737-3039A/B. Using observations of the perihelion precession of Mercury, and the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Timothy Clifton , John D. Barrow

This manuscript is an updated version of Kalogera et al. (2004) published in ApJ Letters to correct our calculation of the Galactic DNS in-spiral rate. The details of the original erratum submitted to ApJ Letters are given in page 6 of this…

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