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We study the effect of a white dwarf on the spin-down of a cataclysmic variable system using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical model. The model includes the stellar corona, the stellar wind, and the WD mass and magnetic…

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We explore the possibility that the recently discovered white dwarf pulsar AR Sco acquired its high spin and magnetic field due to repeated episodes of accretion and spin-down. An accreting white dwarf can lead to a larger mass and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-03 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , A. R. Rao , Tanayveer Singh Bhatia

The accretion induced collapse (AIC) of a white dwarf to a neutron star has long been suggested as a natural theoretical outcome in stellar evolution, but there has never been a direct detection of such an event. This is not surprising…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anthony L. Piro , Todd A. Thompson

The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) and core-merger-induced collapse (CMIC) from oxygen-neon-magnesium (ONeMg) white dwarf (WD) binaries inside planetary nebulae (PNe) have not been previously even mentioned in the literature. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Iminhaji Ablimit

We present the discovery and phase-coherent timing of four highly dispersed millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Arecibo PALFA Galactic plane survey: PSRs J1844+0115, J1850+0124, J1900+0308, and J1944+2236. Three of the four pulsars are in…

We explore the effects of the residual $\mathrm{^{12}C}$ present in oxygen-neon white dwarfs (ONe WDs) on their evolution towards accretion-induced collapse (AIC). We produce a set of ONe WD models using MESA and illustrate how the amount…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Josiah Schwab , Kyle Akira Rocha

The White Dwarf Binary Pathways Survey aims at increasing the number of known detached A, F, G and K main sequence stars in close orbits with white dwarf companions (WD+AFGK binaries) to refine our understanding about compact binary…

We have collected the parameter of 38 neutron stars (NSs) in binary systems with spin periods and measured masses. By adopting the Boot-strap method, we reproduced the procedure of mass calculated for each system separately, to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-28 Z. Cheng , A. Taani , Y. H. Zhao

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are neutron stars with spin periods as short as a few milliseconds, formed through mass accretion from companion stars. In the dense environments of globular clusters (GCs), MSPs are likely to originate through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Yuzhe Song , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Jarrod Hurley , Rainer Spurzem , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Kai Wu

We have discovered a detached pair of white dwarfs (WDs) with a 12.75 min orbital period and a 1,315 km/s radial velocity amplitude. We measure the full orbital parameters of the system using its light curve, which shows ellipsoidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , J. J. Hermes , Carlos Allende Prieto , Scott J. Kenyon , D. E. Winget

Merger of two white dwarfs (WDs) has been proposed to form an isolated WD having high magnetization and rapid rotation. We study the influence of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wind on spin evolution of the newly-formed merger product. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Yanchang Cheng , Jumpei Takata

We present a new dynamical scenario for the formation of short-period binary millisecond pulsars in globular clusters. Our work is motivated by the recent observations of 20 radio pulsars in 47 Tuc. In a dense cluster such as 47 Tuc, most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic A. Rasio , Eric D. Pfahl , Saul Rappaport

The discovery of pulsations in some low-mass white dwarfs, including the so-called extremely low-mass white dwarfs, has opened the unprecedented opportunity of probing the internal structure of these ancient stars. We present a detailed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. H. Córsico , L. G. Althaus

We consider the evolution of millisecond radio pulsars in binary systems with a main-sequence or evolved stellar companion. Evolution of non-accreting binary systems with "eclipsing" milisecond pulsars was described by Klu\'zniak, Czerny &…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-20 Filip Ficek , Mieszko Rutkowski , Włodek Kluźniak

We present a novel method that enables us to estimate the acceleration of individual millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using only their spin period and its time derivative. For our binary MSP sample, we show that one can obtain an empirical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-23 Thomas Donlon , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Sophia Vanderwaal , Lawrence M. Widrow , Scott Ransom , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We model the population characteristics of the sample of millisecond pulsars within a distance of 1.5kpc.We find that for a braking index n=3, the birth magnetic field distribution of the neutron stars as they switch on as radio MSPs can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lilia Ferrario , Dayal Wickramasinghe

We present detailed optical photo-polarimetric observations of the recently-discovered white dwarf pulsar AR Scorpii. Our extensive dataset reveals that the polarized emission is remarkably stable and repeatable with spin, beat and orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-12 Stephen B. Potter , David A. H. Buckley

A millisecond pulsar is a neutron star that has been substantially spun up by accretion from a binary companion. A previously unrecognized factor governing the spin evolution of such pulsars is the crucial effect of non-steady or transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Sudip Bhattacharyya , Deepto Chakrabarty

It has long been accepted that a possible mechanism for explaining the existence of magnetic white dwarfs is the merger of a binary white dwarf system, as there are viable mechanisms for producing sustainable magnetism within the merger…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-28 Baybars Külebi , K. Yavuz Ekşi , Pablo Lorén-Aguilar , Jordi Isern , Enrique García-Berro

Extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) are the result of binary evolution in which a low-mass donor star is stripped by its companion leaving behind a helium-core white dwarf. We explore the formation of ELM WDs in binary systems…

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