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We present timing solutions for 21 pulsars discovered in 350 MHz surveys using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). All were discovered in the Green Bank North Celestial Cap pulsar survey, with the exception of PSR J0957-0619, which was found in…

We present the discovery of 5 millisecond pulsars found in the mid-Galactic latitude portion of the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) Survey. The pulsars have rotational periods from ~2.3 to ~7.5 ms, and all are in binary systems with…

Eclipsing pulsar binaries and binaries with a high mass companion are ideal systems for studying and understanding the properties of plasma in magneto-ionic environments. In this work, the first paper of a series, we present MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Jaikhomba Singha , Dongzi Li , Marisa Geyer , Maciej Serylak , Federico Abbate , Senate Lekomola , Robert Main , Andrea Possenti , Amanda Weltman

We consider the population of black widow pulsars (BWPs). The large majority of these are members of globular clusters. For minimum companion masses < 0.1 Msun, adiabatic evolution and consequent mass loss under gravitational radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. King , M. E. Beer , D. J. Rolfe , K. Schenker , J. M. Skipp

We report on 12 years of observations of PSR J1713+0747, a pulsar in a 68-day orbit with a white dwarf. Pulse times of arrival were measured with uncertainties as small as 200 ns. The timing data yielded measurements of the relativistic…

Black widows are extreme millisecond pulsar binaries where the pulsar wind ablates their low-mass companion stars. Their optical light curves vary periodically due to the high irradiation and tidal distortion of the companion, which allows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 D. Mata Sánchez , M. R. Kennedy , C. J. Clark , R. P. Breton , V. S. Dhillon , G. Voisin , F. Camilo , S. Littlefair , T. R. Marsh , J. Stringer

We discovered four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in searches of 80 $\gamma$-ray sources conducted from 2015 to 2017 with the Murriyang radio telescope of the Parkes Observatory. We provide an overview of the survey and focus on the results of…

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

We have analyzed 5.5 years of timing observations of 7 ``slowly'' rotating radio pulsars, made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. We present improved timing solutions and 30, mostly small new glitches. The most interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. H. Janssen , B. W. Stappers

We present a study of PSR J1723-2837, an eclipsing, 1.86 ms millisecond binary radio pulsar discovered in the Parkes Multibeam survey. Radio timing indicates that the pulsar has a circular orbit with a 15 hr orbital period, a low-mass…

We report on 22 yrs of radio timing observations of the millisecond pulsar J1024$-$0719 by the telescopes participating in the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). These observations reveal a significant second derivative of the pulsar spin…

We present results of more than three decades of timing measurements of the first known binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16. Like most other pulsars, its rotational behavior over such long time scales is significantly affected by small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-08 Joel M. Weisberg , David J. Nice , Joseph H. Taylor

PSR J1528-3146 is a 60.8 ms pulsar orbiting a heavy white dwarf (WD) companion, with an orbital period of 3.18 d. This work aimed at characterizing the pulsar's astrometric, spin and orbital parameters by analyzing timing measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 A. Berthereau , L. Guillemot , P. C. C. Freire , M. Kramer , V. Venkatraman Krishnan , I. Cognard , G. Theureau , M. Bailes , M. C. i Bernadich , M. E. Lower

Black widows are millisecond pulsars with low-mass companions, a few per cent the mass of the sun, on orbits of several hours. These companions are presumably the remnants of main sequence stars that lost their mass through a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-07 Sivan Ginzburg , Eliot Quataert

We conducted a timing analysis of over 18 years of data on the young ($\tau_{\rm c} = 112$ kyr, $P = 114$\,ms) relativistic binary PSR~J1906+0746, using six radio telescopes: Arecibo, FAST, Green Bank, Lovell, MeerKAT, and Nan\c{c}ay. This…

We present the first measurement of the gravitational quadrupole moment of the companion star of a spider pulsar, namely the black widow PSR J2051$-$0827. To this end we have re-analysed radio timing data using a new model which is able to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Guillaume Voisin , C Clark , R Breton , V. Dhillon , M Kennedy , D Mata-Sánchez

We have conducted radio timing observations of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar J2051-0827 with the European Pulsar Timing Array network of telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope, spanning over 13 years. The increased data span…

We provide an analysis of timing irregularities observed for 366 pulsars. Observations were obtained using the 76-m Lovell radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory over the past 36 years. These data sets have allowed us to carry out…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Hobbs , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer

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