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We have discovered a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar binary near the center of the error ellipse of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J0940.3-7610. The candidate counterpart is a variable optical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Laura Chomiuk , Kristen C. Dage , Laura Shishkovsky

The Fermi $\gamma$-ray source 1FGL J1417.7--4407 (J1417) is a compact X-ray binary with a neutron star primary and a red giant companion in a $\sim$5.4 day orbit. This initial conclusion, based on optical and X-ray data, was confirmed when…

We present the discovery of a likely new redback millisecond pulsar binary associated with the \emph{Fermi} $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J2333.1--5527. Using optical photometric and spectroscopic observations from the SOAR telescope, we…

We report optical photometric and SOAR spectroscopic observations of an X-ray source found within the localization error of the Fermi-LAT unidentified gamma-ray source J0523.5-2529. The optical data show periodic flux modulation and radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Eda Sonbas , Kirill Sokolovsky , David J. Sand , Alexander S. Moskvitin , C. C. Cheung

We report the discovery of a new low-mass X-ray binary near the center of the unassociated Fermi GeV gamma-ray source 4FGL J0540.0-7552. The source shows the persistent presence of an optical accretion disk and exhibits extreme X-ray and…

We report the discovery of a variable optical and X-ray source within the error ellipse of the previously unassociated Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J0407.7--5702. A 22 ksec observation from XMM-Newton/EPIC shows an…

We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the likely stellar counterpart to the unassociated \emph{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source 2FGL J0846.0+2820, selected for study based on positional…

We present multiwavelength observations of the persistent Fermi-LAT unidentified gamma-ray source 1FGL J1417.7-4407, showing it is likely to be associated with a newly discovered X-ray binary containing a massive neutron star (nearly 2…

4FGL J0935.3+0901 is a gamma-ray source detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. We have conducted detailed analysis of the LAT data for this source and multi-wavelength studies of the source…

We present the discovery of a new optical/X-ray source likely associated with the Fermi $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1408.6-2917. Its high-amplitude periodic optical variability, large spectroscopic radial velocity semi-amplitude, evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Elias Aydi , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Paul S. Ray , Matthew Kerr

We have found an optical/X-ray counterpart candidate for the bright, but presently unidentified, Fermi source 2FGL J1311.7-3429. This counterpart undergoes large amplitude quasi-sinusoidal optical modulation with a 1.56h (5626s) period. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Roger W. Romani

We present a multi-wavelength study of the unassociated Fermi-LAT source, 3FGL J0954.8-3948, which is likely the gamma-ray counterpart of a 9.3-hour binary in the field. With more than 9 years of Pass 8 LAT data, we updated the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Kwan-Lok Li , Xian Hou , Jay Strader , Jumpei Takata , Albert K. H. Kong , Laura Chomiuk , Samuel J. Swihart , Chung Yue Hui , K. S. Cheng

We report the discovery of a new black-widow millisecond pulsar, PSR J1544-2555, associated with the Fermi-LAT source 4FGL J1544.2-2554. Optical, radio, and gamma-ray observations confirmed its nature as a compact spider binary system.…

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

Context. Spider pulsars are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems, in which a low-mass companion star is heated and ablated by the pulsar wind. Their observations allow one to study stellar evolution with formation of millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 A. V. Karpova , S. V. Zharikov , D. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Kirichenko , Yu. A. Shibanov , I. F. Márquez

In a search of the unidentified Fermi gamma-ray source 3FGL J1417.5-4402 with the Parkes radio telescope, we discovered PSR J1417-4402, a 2.66 ms pulsar having the same 5.4 day orbital period as the optical and X-ray binary identified by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 F. Camilo , J. E. Reynolds , S. M. Ransom , J. P. Halpern , S. Bogdanov , M. Kerr , P. S. Ray , J. M. Cordes , J. Sarkissian , E. D. Barr , E. C. Ferrara

We report on a discovery of a promising candidate as a black widow millisecond pulsar binary, 4FGL J0336.0+7502, which shows many pulsar-like properties in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. Within the 95% error region of the LAT source, we identified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kwan-Lok Li , Y. X. Jane Yap , Chung Yue Hui , Albert K. H. Kong

We present an optical, X-ray, and $\gamma$-ray study of 1SXPS J042749.2-670434, an eclipsing X-ray binary which has an associated $\gamma$-ray counterpart, 4FGL J0427.8-6704. This association has led to the source being classified as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 M. R. Kennedy , R. P. Breton , C. J. Clark , V. S. Dhillon , M. Kerr , D. A. H. Buckley , S. B. Potter , D. Mata Sánchez , J. G. Stringer , T. R. Marsh

We present a multi-wavelength study of the unidentified Fermi object, 3FGL J0212.1+5320. Within the 95% error ellipse, Chandra detects a bright X-ray source (i.e., F(0.5-7keV) = 1.4e-12 erg/cm^2/s), which has a low-mass optical counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Kwan-Lok Li , Albert K. H. Kong , Xian Hou , Jirong Mao , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Evangelia Tremou

We report the discovery of an eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary at the center of the 3FGL error ellipse of the unassociated Fermi/Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J0427.9-6704. Photometry from OGLE and the SMARTS 1.3-m telescope and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Jay Strader , Kwan-Lok Li , Laura Chomiuk , Craig O. Heinke , Andrzej Udalski , Mark Peacock , Laura Shishkovsky , Evangelia Tremou
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