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The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. We discuss the $\gamma$-ray emission process within the context of the outer gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-26 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

We report the radio observations of the eclipsing black widow pulsar J1720-0534, a 3.26 ms pulsar in orbit with a low mass companion of mass 0.029 to 0.034 M$_{\odot}$. We obtain the phase-connected timing ephemeris and polarization profile…

We report the discovery of 1.97 ms period gamma-ray pulsations from the 75 minute orbital-period binary pulsar now named PSR J1653-0158. The associated Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 4FGL J1653.6-0158 has long been expected to…

More than 100 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been discovered in radio observations of gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), but hundreds of pulsar-like sources remain unidentified. Here we present the first…

Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modelling the free electron density in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Sindre S. Lindseth , Manuel Linares , Alice K. Harding , Marco Turchetta

The launch of several sensitive X-ray and gamma-ray instruments during the last decade heralded a new era in the research of millisecond pulsars. The current number of millisecond pulsars detected in the X-ray spectral window is about 30,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen

PSR J2129-0429 is a "redback" eclipsing millisecond pulsar binary with an unusually long 15.2 hour orbit. It was discovered by the Green Bank Telescope in a targeted search of unidentified Fermi gamma-ray sources. The pulsar companion is…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and normal non-recycled pulsars are both detected in $\gamma$-rays. However, it appears that a much larger fraction of known energetic and nearby MSPs are detected in $\gamma$-rays, in comparison with normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Guillemot , T. M. Tauris

Pulsars emerge in the Fermi era as a sizable population of gamma-ray sources. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) constitute an older subpopulation whose sky distribution extends to high Galactic latitudes, and it has been suggested that unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Rebecca Reesman , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Stefano Profumo , Terry P. Walker

We analyse 55 ks of Chandra X-ray observations of the Galactic globular cluster M13. Using the latest radio timing positions of six known millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in M13 from Wang et al. (2020), we detect confident X-ray counterparts to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Jiaqi Zhao , Yue Zhao , Craig O. Heinke

Low energy X-ray emission (0.1-10 keV) from all six millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) for which such emission has been reported support a proposed pulsar magnetic field evolution previously compared only to radiopulse data: old, very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ruderman

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…

Fermi has detected over 200 pulsars above 100 MeV. In a previous work, using 3 years of LAT data (1FHL catalog) we reported that 28 of these pulsars show emission above 10 GeV; only three of these, however, were millisecond pulsars (MSPs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Andrea Belfiore , David Carreto Fidalgo , Colin J. Clark , Matthew Kerr , Lars Nieder

According to the recycling scenario, millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have evolved from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Their orbits are expected to be circular due to tidal interactions during the binary evolution, as observed in most of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Long Jiang , Xiang-Dong Li , Jishnu Dey , Mira Dey

Significant gamma-ray pulsations have been detected from ~40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using 3 years of sky-survey data from the Fermi LAT and radio timing solutions from across the globe. We have fit the radio and gamma-ray pulse profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding , C. Venter , J. E. Grove

A millisecond pulsar (MSP) is an old neutron star (NS) that has accreted material from its companion star, causing it to spin up, which is known as the recycling scenario. During the mass transfer phase, the system manifests itself as an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-16 Shunyi Lan , Xiangcun Meng

The Fermi catalogue contains about 2000 unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources. Some of them were recently identified as pulsars, including so called redbacks and black widows, which are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems with non- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 A. V. Karpova , D. A. Zyuzin , Yu. A. Shibanov , M. R. Gilfanov

We describe the first X-ray observations of binary millisecond pulsars PSRs J0023+0923, J1810+1744, J2215+5135, and J2256-1024. All four are Fermi gamma-ray sources and three are 'black-widow' pulsars, with companions of mass < 0.1 solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Gentile , Maura McLaughlin , Mallory Roberts , Fernando Camilo , Jason Hessels , Matthew Kerr , Scott Ransom , Paul Ray , Ingrid Stairs

We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Lucas Guillemot

This study presents an orbital phase-dependent analysis of three black widow spider millisecond pulsars (BW MSPs), aiming to investigate the magnetic field within the eclipse environment. The ultra-wide-bandwidth low-frequency receiver…