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Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of massive white-dwarfs (WDs) has been proposed as an important way for the formation of neutron star (NS) systems. An oxygen-neon (ONe) WD that accretes H-rich material from a red-giant (RG) star may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Bo Wang , Dongdong Liu , Hailiang Chen

It is believed that the radio pulsars rotating at spin periods of about 30 millisecond or even lower got such high spins through the transfer of angular momentum by accreting matter from their binary companions (or past companions) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-28 Arpita Choudhary

Eccentric millisecond pulsar + helium white dwarf (MSP + He WD) systems have attracted increasing attention, with the rotationally delayed accretion-induced collapse (RD-AIC) scenario proposed as a possible formation channel. Given the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiangcun Meng

We study accretion induced collapse of magnetized white dwarfs as an origin of millisecond pulsars. We apply magnetized accretion disk models to the pre-collapse accreting magnetic white dwarfs and calculate the white dwarf spin evolution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Insu Yi , Eric G. Blackman

We investigate the spin dynamics of a millisecond pulsar (MSP) in a tightly bounded orbit around a massive black hole. These binaries are progenitors of the extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs) and intermediate-mass-ratio-inspirals (IMRIs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-11 Kaye Jiale Li , Kinwah Wu , Dinesh Singh

Binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are detached binary systems consisting of a MSP and a He white dwarf. If the initial orbital periods of binary MSPs are less than 0.3 day, they would evolve toward ultra-compact binary pulsars due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Wen-Cong Chen

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) is widely accepted to be one of the formation channels for millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Since the MSPs have high spindown luminosities, they can immediately start to evaporate their companion stars after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Wei-Min Liu , Xiang-Dong Li

We examine the growing data set of binary millisecond pulsars that are thought to have a helium white dwarf companion. These systems are believed to form when a low- to intermediate-mass companion to a neutron star fills its Roche lobe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sarah L. Smedley , Christopher A. Tout , Lilia Ferrario , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe

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

Binary radio pulsars are generally believed to have been spun up to millisecond periods (i.e. recycling) via mass accretion from their donor stars, and they are the descendants of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. However, some studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Wen-Cong Chen , Xi-Wei Liu , Ren-Xin Xu , Xiang-Dong Li

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been proposed as evolutionary products of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) through a stage in which they are spider pulsars (i.e., redbacks and black widows). However, recent work has found that the systemic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Paul Disberg , Arash Bahramian , Ilya Mandel

We investigate the spin dynamics of a millisecond pulsar (MSP) in compact orbit around a Kerr-like massive black hole with an general mass quadrupole. We use the Mathisson-Papetrou-Dixon formulation to compute the orbital and spin evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Tom Kimpson , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) are fast rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars. According to the "canonical recycling scenario", MSPs form in binary systems containing a neutron star which is spun up through mass accretion from the evolving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 Cristina Pallanca

We study observational constraints on neutron star (NS) kicks for isolated pulsars and for neutron stars in binary systems. We are particularly interested in the evidence of kick-spin alignment/misalignment and its dependence on the neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Chen Wang , Dong Lai , JinLin Han

We present a systematic study of the evolution of intermediate- and low-mass X-ray binaries consisting of an accreting neutron star of mass $1.0-1.8 M_{\odot}$ and a donor star of mass $1.0-6.0 M_{\odot}$. In our calculations we take into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yong Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

We present high-precision timing of five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) carried out for more than seven years; four pulsars are in binary systems and one is isolated. We are able to measure the pulsars' proper motions and derive an estimate for…

Millisecond pulsar (MSP) binaries are unique laboratories for studying matter and radiation under extreme conditions that are unattainable on Earth. Recent detections of optical millisecond pulsations from three systems in distinct…

Magnetic braking (MB) mechanism plays a vital role throughout the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Considering the standard MB prescription, the initial orbital periods of LMXBs that can evolve into binary millisecond pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Xing-Peng Yang , Wen-Cong Chen

We present an analytical method for studying the changes of the orbital characteristics of binary systems with circular orbits due to a kick velocity imparted to the newborn neutron star during a supernova explosion (SN). Assuming a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Vassiliki Kalogera

We report the discovery of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J1950+2414 ($P=4.3$ ms) in a binary system with an eccentric ($e=0.08$) 22-day orbit in Pulsar ALFA survey observations with the Arecibo telescope. Its companion star has a median…