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PSR J2140$-$2311B is a 13-ms pulsar discovered in 2001 in a 7.8-hour Green Bank Telescope (GBT) observation of the core-collapsed globular cluster M30 and predicted to be in a highly eccentric binary orbit. This pulsar has eluded detection…

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…

Previous optical and radio observations of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1640+2224 have come to inconsistent conclusions about the identity of its companion, with some observations suggesting the companion is a low-mass helium-core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Sarah J. Vigeland , Adam T. Deller , David L. Kaplan , Alina G. Istrate , Benjamin W. Stappers , Thomas M. Tauris

We present simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the 4.66 ms redback pulsar PSR J1048+2339. We performed phase-resolved spectroscopy with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) searching for signatures of a residual accretion disk or…

The millisecond pulsar PSR B1620-26, in the globular cluster M4, has a white dwarf companion in a half-year orbit. Anomalously large variations in the pulsar's apparent spin-down rate have suggested the presence of a second companion in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Thorsett , Z. Arzoumanian , F. Camilo , A. G. Lyne

Millisecond radio pulsars are neutron stars that have been spun-up by the transfer of angular momentum during the low-mass X-ray binary phase. The transition from an accretion-powered to a rotation-powered pulsar takes place on evolutionary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , J. Casares , S. Covino , G. L. Israel , G. Marconi , Rob Hynes , P. Charles , L. Stella

We have carried out high-precision timing measurements of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J2051$-$0827 with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope of the Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Radioastronomie and with the Lovell 76-m radio telescope at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Doroshenko , O. Loehmer , M. Kramer , A. Jessner , R. Wielebinski , A. G. Lyne , Ch. Lange

In the last few years, over 43 millisecond radio pulsars have been discovered by targeted searches of unidentified gamma-ray sources found by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. A large fraction of these millisecond pulsars are in compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. P. Breton , M. H. van Kerkwijk , M. S. E. Roberts , J. W. T. Hessels , F. Camilo , M. A. McLaughlin , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , I. H. Stairs

We have used deep V and R images acquired at the ESO Very Large Telescope to identify the optical companion to the binary pulsar PSR J0610-2100, one of the black-widow millisecond pulsars recently detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Pallanca , R. P. Mignani , E. Dalessandro , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , A. Possenti , M. Burgay , E. Sabbi

We present 3 yr of timing observations for PSR J1453+1902, a 5.79-ms pulsar discovered during a 430-MHz drift-scan survey with the Arecibo telescope. Our observations show that PSR J1453+1902 is solitary and has a proper motion of 8(2)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. R. Lorimer , M. A. McLaughlin , D. J. Champion , I. H. Stairs

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…

Time-domain analysis of an archival XMM-Newton observation unveiled a very unusual variability pattern in the soft X-ray emission of PSR J1311-3430, a black widow millisecond pulsar in a tight binary (P_B=93.8 min) with a very low-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Andrea De Luca , Martino Marelli , Sandro Mereghetti , Ruben Salvaterra , Roberto Mignani , Andrea Belfiore

We present optical and infrared observations taken with the Very Large Telescope of the eclipsing binary pulsar system PSR B1718-19. The candidate companion of the pulsar, identified earlier in Hubble Space Telescope observations, has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Janssen , M. H. van Kerkwijk

We present phase-connected timing ephemerides, polarization pulse profiles and Faraday rotation measurements of 12 pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST…

Eclipses of radio emission have been reported for ~ 58 spider millisecond pulsars (MSP), of which only around 19% have been extensively studied. Such studies at low frequencies are crucial for probing the properties of the eclipse medium,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Sangita Kumari , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Devojyoti Kansabanik , Rahul Sharan , Ankita Ghosh , Jayanta Roy

PSR J1906+0746 is a young pulsar in the relativistic binary with the second-shortest known orbital period, of 3.98 hours. We here present a timing study based on five years of observations, conducted with the 5 largest radio telescopes in…

We present the results of deep, high-resolution, multi-band optical observations of the field of the young (~ 5,000 yrs) 16 ms X-ray pulsar PSR J0537$-$6910 performed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Mignani , L. Pulone , G. Iannicola , G. G. Pavlov , L. Townsley , O. Y. Kargaltsev

We report on optical observations of the low-mass binary millisecond pulsar systems J0034-0534 and J2145-0750. A faint (I=23.5) object was found to be coincident with the timing position of PSR J2145-0750. While a galaxy or distant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Bell , S. R. Kulkarni , M. Bailes , E. M. Leitch , A. G. Lyne

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…