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Binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) provide several opportunities for research of fundamental physics. However, finding them can be challenging. Several subdwarf B (sdB) binary systems with possible neutron star companions have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 L. C. Oostrum , J. van Leeuwen , Y. Maan , T. Coenen , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

We report on an {unusually} bright observation of PSR J1720$-$0533 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The pulsar is in a black widow system that {was discovered by the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 S. Q. Wang , J. B. Wang , N. Wang , J. M. Yao , G. Hobbs , S. Dai , F. F. Kou , C. C. Miao , D. Li , Y. Feng , S. J. Dang , D. H. Wang , P. Wang , J. P. Yuan , C. M. Zhang , L. Zhang , S. B. Zhang , W. W. Zhu

We have carried out high-precision timing observations of the eclipsing binary PSR J2051-0827 in the 3.3 years since its discovery. These data indicate that the orbital period is decreasing at a rate of dPb/dt = (-11+-1)X10^-12. If secular,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. W. Stappers , M. Bailes , R. N. Manchester , J. S. Sandhu , M. Toscano

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

PSR J1012+5307, a millisecond pulsar in orbit with a helium white dwarf (WD), has been timed with high precision for about 25 years. One of the main objectives of this long-term timing is to use the large asymmetry in gravitational binding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-31 Hao Ding , Adam T. Deller , Paulo Freire , David L. Kaplan , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Ryan Shannon , Benjamin Stappers

We present updated analyses of pulse profiles and their arrival-times from PSR B1534+12, a 37.9-ms radio pulsar in orbit with another neutron star. A high-precision timing model is derived from twenty-two years of timing data, and accounts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Fonseca , I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett

Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we have discovered PSR J0514-4002A, a binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 1851. This pulsar has a rotational period of 4.99 ms and the most eccentric pulsar orbit yet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. C. Freire , Y. Gupta , S. M. Ransom , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

We have used the Arecibo Radio Telescope to search for millisecond pulsars in two intermediate Galactic latitude regions (7 deg < | b | < 20 deg) accessible to this telescope. For these latitudes the useful millisecond pulsar search volume…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose Navarro , Stuart Anderson , Paulo C. Freire

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 report on the discovery of the companion star to the millisecond pulsar PSR J1835-3259B in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6652. Taking advantage of deep photometric archival observations acquired through the Hubble Space Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 J. Chen , M. Cadelano , C. Pallanca , F. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , A. Istrate , M. Burgay , P. Freire , T. Gautam , A. Possenti , A. Ridolfi

The millisecond pulsar in a triple system (PSR J0337+1715, recently discovered by Ransom et al.) is an unusual neutron star with two orbiting white dwarfs. The existence of such a system in the Galactic field poses new challenges to stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Thomas Tauris , Ed van den Heuvel

We report on the discovery of a binary pulsar, PSR J1740-3052, during the Parkes multibeam survey. Timing observations of the 570-ms pulsar at Jodrell Bank and Parkes show that it is young, with a characteristic age of 350 kyr, and is in a…

We report on the discovery of the companion star to the millisecond pulsar J1342+2822B in the globular cluster M3. We exploited a combination of near-ultraviolet and optical observations acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope in order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Cadelano , F. R. Ferraro , A. G. Istrate , C. Pallanca , B. Lanzoni , P. C. C. Freire

PSR J1740-3052 is a young pulsar in orbit around a companion that is most likely a B-type main-sequence star. Since its discovery more than a decade ago, data have been taken at several frequencies with instruments at the Green Bank,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 E. C. Madsen , I. H. Stairs , M. Kramer , F. Camilo , G. B. Hobbs , G. H. Janssen , A. G. Lyne , R. N. Manchester , A. Possenti , B. W. Stappers

We present optical observations of the redback millisecond pulsar PSR J1048+2339, which is a 4.66 ms radio pulsar in a compact binary with an orbital period of six hours. We obtained high-quality light curves of PSR J1048+2339 with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Yee Xuan Yap , K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong , J. Takata , J. Lee , C. Y. Hui

PG 2131+066 is a composite-spectrum binary with a hot pulsating PG 1159-type pre-white dwarf and an early M-type main sequence star. Analysis of Whole Earth Telescope observations of the pulsating pre-white dwarf component provided an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Reed , Steven D. Kawaler , M. Sean O'Brien

Gravitationally bound three-body systems have been studied for hundreds of years and are common in our Galaxy. They show complex orbital interactions, which can constrain the compositions, masses, and interior structures of the bodies and…

We present the discovery of PSR J1728-4608, a new redback spider pulsar identified in images from the Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope. PSR J1728-4608 is a millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 2.86 ms, in a 5.05 hr orbit with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 F. Petrou , Y. Wang , N. Hurley-Walker , S. McSweeney , L. Zhang , R. G. Key , J. Freeburn , B. W. Meyers , David L. Kaplan , A. Zic , Tara Murphy , D. Dobie , Y. Maan

PSR~J1618$-$3921 is an $11.99$-ms pulsar in a $22.7$-d orbit around a likely low-mass He white dwarf companion, discovered in a survey of the intermediate Galactic latitudes at 1400 MHz conducted with the Parkes radio telescope in the late…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 F. Octau , I. Cognard , L. Guillemot , T. M. Tauris , P. C. C. Freire , G. Desvignes , G. Theureau

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…