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We present the study of multi-wavelength observations of an unidentified Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source, 4FGL J1910.7-5320, a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar binary. In the 4FGL 95% error region of 4FGL J1910.7-5320, we…

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

We present a multi-wavelength study of the unassociated Fermi-LAT source, 3FGL J0954.8-3948, which is likely the gamma-ray counterpart of a 9.3-hour binary in the field. With more than 9 years of Pass 8 LAT data, we updated the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Kwan-Lok Li , Xian Hou , Jay Strader , Jumpei Takata , Albert K. H. Kong , Laura Chomiuk , Samuel J. Swihart , Chung Yue Hui , K. S. Cheng

We present the discovery of a variable optical counterpart to the unidentified gamma-ray source 3FGL J0212.1+5320, and argue this is a new compact binary millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate. We show 3FGL J0212.1+5320 hosts a semi-detached…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Manuel Linares , Paulo Miles-Páez , Pablo Rodríguez-Gil , Tariq Shahbaz , Jorge Casares , Cecilia Fariña , Raine Karjalainen

We present multi-wavelength observations of the unassociated gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.6-5618 detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The source gamma-ray properties suggest that it is a pulsar, most likely a millisecond pulsar, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 D. Salvetti , R. P. Mignani , A. De Luca , C. Delvaux , C. Pallanca , A. Belfiore , M. Marelli , A. A. Breeveld , J. Greiner , W. Becker , D. Pizzoccaro

Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of the gamma-ray source 4FGL J1702.7-5655, previously classified as a candidate millisecond pulsar, show highly-significant modulation at a period of 0.2438033 days (~ 5.85 hours).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 R. H. D. Corbet , L. Chomiuk , J. B. Coley , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , N. Islam , V. A. McBride , J. Stevens , J. Strader , S. J. Swihart , L. J. Townsend

We present the discovery of a likely new redback millisecond pulsar binary associated with the \emph{Fermi} $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J2333.1--5527. Using optical photometric and spectroscopic observations from the SOAR telescope, we…

The Fermi catalogue contains about 2000 unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources. Some of them were recently identified as pulsars, including so called redbacks and black widows, which are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems with non- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 A. V. Karpova , D. A. Zyuzin , Yu. A. Shibanov , M. R. Gilfanov

We report the discovery of a 2.11 ms binary millisecond pulsar during a targeted search of the redback optical candidate coincident with the $\gamma$-ray source 3FGL J0212.5+5320 using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Karen I. Perez , Slavko Bogdanov , Jules P. Halpern , Vishal Gajjar

The Fermi $\gamma$-ray source 1FGL J1417.7--4407 (J1417) is a compact X-ray binary with a neutron star primary and a red giant companion in a $\sim$5.4 day orbit. This initial conclusion, based on optical and X-ray data, was confirmed when…

Redback pulsars are a subclass of millisecond pulsar system with a low-mass non-degenerate companion star being ablated by the pulsar. They are of interest due to the insights they can provide for late-stage pulsar evolution during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 O. A. Johnson , E. F. Keane , D. J. McKenna , H. Qiu , S. J. Swihart , J. Strader , M. McLaughlin

In a search of the unidentified Fermi gamma-ray source 3FGL J1417.5-4402 with the Parkes radio telescope, we discovered PSR J1417-4402, a 2.66 ms pulsar having the same 5.4 day orbital period as the optical and X-ray binary identified by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 F. Camilo , J. E. Reynolds , S. M. Ransom , J. P. Halpern , S. Bogdanov , M. Kerr , P. S. Ray , J. M. Cordes , J. Sarkissian , E. D. Barr , E. C. Ferrara

PSR J2129-0429 is a "redback" eclipsing millisecond pulsar binary with an unusually long 15.2 hour orbit. It was discovered by the Green Bank Telescope in a targeted search of unidentified Fermi gamma-ray sources. The pulsar companion is…

We have found an optical/X-ray counterpart candidate for the bright, but presently unidentified, Fermi source 2FGL J1311.7-3429. This counterpart undergoes large amplitude quasi-sinusoidal optical modulation with a 1.56h (5626s) period. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Roger W. Romani

We report multi-wavelength observations of the unidentified Fermi object 2FGL J1653.6-0159. With the help of high-resolution X-ray observation, we have identified an X-ray and optical counterpart of 2FGL J1653.6-0159. The source exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. K. H. Kong , R. Jin , T. -C. Yen , C. P. Hu , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , L. C. C. Lin , K. S. Cheng , S. M. Park , C. L. Kim

We obtained new optical observations of the X-ray source XMMU J083850.38-282756.8, the previously proposed counterpart of the gamma-ray source 3FGL J0838.8-2829. Time-series photometry in the $r'$ band reveals periodic modulation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 J. P. Halpern , J. Strader , M. Li

We have discovered a new X-ray emitting compact binary that is the likely counterpart to the unassociated Fermi-LAT GeV $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1120.0-2204, the second brightest Fermi source that still remains formally unidentified. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Laura Chomiuk , Kristen C. Dage , Adam Kawash , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Elizabeth C. Ferrara

Using the Parkes radio telescope we have carried out deep observations of eleven unassociated gamma-ray sources. Periodicity searches of these data have discovered two millisecond pulsars, PSR J1103-5403 (1FGL J1103.9-5355) and PSR…

Several redback and black widow millisecond pulsar binaries have episodes of flaring in X-rays and optical. We initially detected such behavior from the Fermi selected redback candidate 1FGL J0523.5$-$2529 during optical time-series…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Jules P. Halpern , Karen I. Perez , Slavko Bogdanov

1FGL J0523.5$-$2529 is a Fermi selected redback millisecond pulsar candidate that exhibited luminous optical and X-ray flares in 2020-2021. We obtained a simultaneous X-ray and $U$-band observation with XMM-Newton in 2025, the first to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 J. P. Halpern , S. Bogdanov
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