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Pulsars are potentially the most remarkable physical laboratories we will ever use. Although in many senses they are extremely clean systems there are a large number of instabilities and variabilities seen in the emission and rotation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. F. Keane

We report on the discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and timing ephemerides provided by various radio observatories. We also present confirmation of the gamma-ray…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are abundant in globular clusters (GCs), which offer favorable environments for their creation. While the advent of recent, powerful facilities led to a rapid increase in MSP discoveries in GCs through pulsation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Joanna Berteaud , Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Maïca Clavel , Daryl Haggard

The millisecond pulsars discovered in globular clusters are diagnostic tools for studying the dynamics of the clusters, the intracluster ionized gas and the evolution of the binaries embedded in the cluster. In the first two years of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Possenti

Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars (NSs) that are thought to have been spun-up by mass accretion from a stellar companion. It is unknown whether there is a natural brake for this process, or if it continues until the centrifugal breakup…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are believed to be old neutron stars, formed via Type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae, which have subsequently been spun up to high rotation rates via accretion from a companion star in a highly circularised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Paulo C. C. Freire , Thomas M. Tauris

The cumulative luminosity distribution functions (CLFs) of radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in globular clusters (GCs) and in the Galactic field at a frequency of 1.4 GHz have been examined. Assuming a functional form, $N \propto L^q$ where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , Ronald E. Taam

With vast mmWave spectrum and narrow beam antenna technology, precise position location is now possible in 5G and future mobile communication systems. In this article, we describe how centimeterlevel localization accuracy can be achieved,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport

The radio polarization characteristics of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) differ significantly from those of non-recycled pulsars. In particular, the position angle (PA) swings of many MSPs deviate from the S-shape predicted by the rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. T. Y. Chung , A. Melatos

Dispersion in the interstellar medium is a well known phenomenon that follows a simple relationship, which has been used to predict the time delay of dispersed radio pulses since the late 1960s. We performed wide-band simultaneous…

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) represent a dynamic category of celestial sources that establish a crucial connection between low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars. These systems exhibit transitions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 M. M. Messa , P. D'Avanzo , F. Coti Zelati , M. C. Baglio , S. Campana

Analysis of high-precision timing observations of an array of approx. 20 millisecond pulsars (a so-called "timing array") may ultimately result in the detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave background. The feasibility of such a…

Binary and Millisecond pulsars have a great deal to teach us about stellar evolution and are invaluable tools for tests of relativistic theories of gravity. Our understanding of these objects has been transformed by large-scale surveys that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Bailes

We have conducted a search of 19 southern Galactic globular clusters for sub-millisecond pulsars at 660 MHz with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. To minimize dispersion smearing we used the CPSR baseband recorder, which samples the 20 MHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. T. Edwards , W. van Straten , M. Bailes

Millisecond pulsars are old neutron stars that have been spun up to high rotational frequencies via accretion of mass from a binary companion star. An important issue for understanding the physics of the early spin evolution of millisecond…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 Thomas M. Tauris

Radio timing observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in support of Fermi LAT observations of the gamma-ray sky enhance the sensitivity of high-energy pulsation searches. With contemporaneous ephemerides we have detected gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

A new search of globular clusters for millisecond pulsars is in progress at Parkes. In this paper we describe the motivation, the new hardware and software systems adopted, the survey plan and the preliminary results. So far, we have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. D'Amico , A. Possenti , R. N. Manchester , J. Sarkissian , A. G. Lyne , F. Camilo

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been studied in detail since their discovery in 1982. The integrated pulse profiles of MSPs appear to be stable, which enables precision monitoring of the pulse times of arrival (TOAs). However, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Liu , E. F. Keane , K. J. Lee , M. Kramer , J. M. Cordes , M. B. Purver

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

For the first time we have fabricated a high granularity micropattern solid-state detector (MSSD) with the unipolar time-differential property for ultrafast pulse response. Optical, x-ray, and gamma-ray photoconductivity measurements prove…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-01-30 A. H. Goldan , O. Tousignant , J. A. Rowlands , K. S. Karim