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The recycling model suggested that low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) could evolve into binary millisecond pulsars (BMSPs). In this work, we attempt to investigate the progenitor properties of BMSPs formed by the recycling evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei-Min Liu , Wen-Cong Chen

Abridged) We model the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) by considering hot spot emission from a weakly magnetized rotating neutron star (NS) covered by an optically-thick hydrogen atmosphere. We investigate the limitations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Slavko Bogdanov , Jonathan E. Grindlay , George B. Rybicki

Observations of a large population of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) show a wide divergence in the orbital periods (from approximately hours to a few months). In the standard view, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries (LMXBs) are considered as progenitors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ali Taani , Chengmin Zhang , Mashhoor Al-Wardat , Yongheng Zhao

A spinning neutron star (NS) that is asymmetric with respect to its spin axis can emit continuous gravitational wave (GW) signals. The spin frequencies and their distribution of radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and accreting MSPs provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Wen-Cong Chen

Intermittent accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars are an exciting new type of sources. Their pulsations appear and disappear either on timescales of hundreds of seconds or on timescales of days. The study of these sources add new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Altamirano , P. Casella

This paper presents the discovery and timing parameters for five millisecond pulsars (MSPs), four in binary systems with probable white dwarf companions and one isolated, found in ongoing processing of the High Time Resolution Universe…

Binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are believed to have descended from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), which have experienced substantial mass transfer and tidal circularization. Therefore, they should have very circular orbits. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Qin Han , Xiang-Dong Li

In this paper we present the first observations of a large sample of millisecond pulsars at frequencies of 2.7 GHz and 4.9 GHz. Our new flux measurements extend the known spectra for millisecond pulsars to the highest frequencies to date.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kramer , C. Lange , D. R. Lorimer , D. C. Backer , K. M. Xilouris , A. Jessner , R. Wielebinski

A new era in fundamental physics began when pulsars were discovered in 1967. Soon it became clear that pulsars were useful tools for a wide variety of physical and astrophysical problems. Further applications became possible with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Michael Kramer

Despite its importance to our understanding of physics at supranuclear densities, the equation of state (EoS) of matter deep within neutron stars remains poorly understood. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are among the most useful astrophysical…

Two classes of X-ray/$\gamma$-ray sources, the Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars have been identified with isolated, slowly spinning magnetars, neutron stars whose emission draws energy from their extremely strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Simone Dall'Osso , Luigi Stella

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

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are the oldest but fastest pulsars known to date. In the 1980s, to explain how these pulsars could be formed, a new hypothesis was formulated: the recycling of pulsars, i.e the fact that a pulsar could accrete…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Mattéo Sautron , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra , Adélie Dupuy--Junet , Marie-Eloïse Pietrin

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) orbiting helium white dwarfs (WDs) in eccentric orbits challenge the established binary evolution paradigm that predicts efficient orbital circularization during the mass transfer episode that spins up the pulsar.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 John Antoniadis

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 D. R. Lorimer

Neutron stars spin down over time due to a number of energy-loss processes. We provide tantalizing population-based evidence that millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have a minimum ellipticity of $\epsilon\approx10^{-9}$ around their spin axis and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-23 G. Woan , M. D. Pitkin , B. Haskell , D. I. Jones , P. D. Lasky

The evolution of neutron stars in close binary systems with a low-mass companion is considered assuming the magnetic field to be confined within the solid crust. We adopt the standard scenario of the evolution in a close binary system in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Urpin , U. Geppert , D. Konenkov

Observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at low radio frequencies play an important role in understanding the Galactic pulsar population and characterising both their emission properties and the effects of the ionised interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 C. P. Lee , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney , W. van Straten , C. M. Tan , M. Xue , N. A. Swainston , S. M. Ord , G. Sleap , S. E. Tremblay , A. Williams

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are generally believed to be old neutron stars (NSs), formed via type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae (SNe), which have been spun up to high rotation rates via accretion from a companion star in a low-mass X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Thomas M. Tauris , Debashis Sanyal , Sung-Chul Yoon , Norbert Langer

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are known for their long-term stability. Using six years of observations from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we have conducted an in-depth analysis of the X-ray timing results for six…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Shijie Zheng , Dawei Han , Heng Xu , Kejia Lee , Jianping Yuan , Haoxi Wang , Mingyu Ge , Liang Zhang , Yongye Li , Yitao Yin , Xiang Ma , Yong Chen , Shuangnan Zhang