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Millisecond pulsars are thought to be neutron stars that have been spun-up by accretion of matter from a binary companion. Although most are in binary systems, some 30% are solitary, and their origin is therefore mysterious. PSR J1719-1438,…

According to the recycling model, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries were spun up to millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which indicates that all MSPs in the Galactic plane ought to be harbored in binaries. However, about $20\%$ Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Long Jiang , Na Wang , Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li , Wei-Min Liu , Zhi-Fu Gao

Pair cascades from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) may be a primary source of Galactic electrons and positrons that contribute to the increase in positron flux above 10 GeV as observed by PAMELA and AMS-02. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 Christo Venter , Andreas Kopp , Alice K Harding , Peter L Gonthier , Ingo Buesching

This second paper in our series investigates the evolutionary mechanisms that shape pulsars and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) across different astrophysical environments. We focus on the physical processes that govern spin evolution, magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Maria Rah , Rainer Spurzem , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Areg Mickaelian

With unparalleled rotational stability, millisecond pulsars (MSPs) serve as ideal laboratories for numerous astrophysical studies, many of which require precise knowledge of the distance and/or velocity of the MSP. Here, we present the…

Accretion-driven spin-up of a magnetized white dwarf in a close binary system is discussed. We address a situation in which the magnetic field of the white dwarf is screening during the accretion phase and re-generating due to the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Nazar Ikhsanov , Nina Beskrovnaya

Empirical birthrate estimates for pulsar binaries depend on the fraction of sky subtended by the pulsar beam: the pulsar beaming fraction. This fraction depends on both the pulsar's opening angle and the misalignment angle between its spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-25 Richard O'Shaughnessy , Chunglee Kim

We report the discovery using the Parkes radio telescope of binary millisecond pulsars in four clusters for which no associated pulsars were previously known. The four pulsars have pulse periods lying between 3 and 6 ms. All are in circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. D'Amico , A. G. Lyne , R. N. Manchester , A. Possenti , F. Camilo

We review the main properties, demographics and applications of binary and millisecond radio pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has greatly increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which have brought the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. R. Lorimer

It is difficult for the intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXBs) evolutionary channel to form intermediate-mass binary pulsars (IMBPs) with a short orbital period (less than 3 d) via stable mass transfer. The main reason is that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Wei-Min Liu , Wen-Cong Chen

We present timing and orbital phase-resolved polarimetry of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) J2101$-$4802, having a spin period of 9.48~ms and dispersion measure (DM) $25.05\ \mathrm{pc\ cm^{-3}}$ discovered with the Giant Meter Radio Telescope…

The origin and fate of magnetars (young, extremely magnetized neutron stars, NSs) remain unsolved. Probing their evolution is therefore crucial for investigating possible links to other species of isolated NSs, such as the X-ray dim NSs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Jedrzej A. Jawor , Thomas M. Tauris

We examine the growing data set of binary millisecond pulsars that are thought to have a helium white dwarf companion. These systems are believed to form when a low- to intermediate-mass companion to a neutron star fills its Roche lobe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sarah L. Smedley , Christopher A. Tout , Lilia Ferrario , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe

Several relatively bright, persistent X-ray sources display regular pulses, with periods in the range of 700-10000 s. These sources are identified with massive close binaries in which a neutron star accretes material onto its surface. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. R. Ikhsanov

Known millisecond pulsars have periods longer than 1.558 ms. Recycled in binary systems, neutron stars can attain very short spin periods. In this paper we investigate the expected properties of the millisecond pulsar distribution by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Possenti , M. Colpi , N. D'Amico , L. Burderi

Binaries harboring a millisecond pulsar (MSP) and a black hole (BH) are a key observing target for current and upcoming pulsar surveys. We model the formation and evolution of such binaries in isolation at solar metallicity using the…

We present a population synthesis model for normal radio pulsars in the Galaxy incorporating the latest developments in the field and the magnetorotational evolution processes. Our model considers spin-down with a force-free magnetosphere…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Zhihong Shi , C. -Y. Ng

Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources through stellar evolution coupled to stellar dynamics. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

We report the phase-connected timing ephemeris, polarization pulse profiles, Faraday rotation measurements, and Rotating-Vector-Model (RVM) fitting results of twelve millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture…

There exists a special class of X-ray pulsars that exhibit very slow pulsation of $P_{\rm spin}>1000$ s in the high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). We have studied the temporal and spectral properties of these superslow pulsation neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 W. Wang