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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.…

An unidentified $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1838.2+3223 has been proposed as a pulsar candidate. We present optical time-series multi-band photometry of its likely optical companion obtained with the 2.1-m telescope of Observatorio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 D. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Kirichenko , A. V. Karpova , Yu. A. Shibanov , S. V. Zharikov , M. R. Gilfanov , C. Perez Tórtola

4FGL J1015.5-6030 is an unidentified Fermi-LAT source hosting a bright, extended X-ray source whose X-ray spectrum is consistent with that of a young pulsar, yet no pulsations have been found. Here we report on XMM-Newton timing and Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George Younes , George G. Pavlov , Igor Volkov

We report on radio timing and multiwavelength observations of the 4.66 ms redback pulsar J1048+2339, which was discovered in an Arecibo search targeting the Fermi-LAT source 3FGLJ1048.6+2338. Two years of timing allowed us to derive precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 J. S. Deneva , P. S. Ray , F. Camilo , J. P. Halpern , K. Wood , H. T. Cromartie , E. Ferrara , M. Kerr , S. M. Ransom , M. T. Wolff , K. C. Chambers , E. A. Magnier

We report multi-wavelength observations of the unidentified Fermi object 2FGL J1653.6-0159. With the help of high-resolution X-ray observation, we have identified an X-ray and optical counterpart of 2FGL J1653.6-0159. The source exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. K. H. Kong , R. Jin , T. -C. Yen , C. P. Hu , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , L. C. C. Lin , K. S. Cheng , S. M. Park , C. L. Kim

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

Spider pulsars constitute a distinct subset within the domain of radio millisecond pulsars, divided further into the categories of black widows and redbacks. Evident across multiple wavelengths, these pulsars manifest periodic variations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Chunyan Lu , Liangliang Ren , Jiamao Lin , Wenjun Huang , Hewen Yang , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam

We have identified an optical/X-ray binary with orbital period P_b=5.47h as the likely counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J2039.6-5620. GROND, SOAR and DES observations provide an accurate orbital period and allow us to compare with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Roger W. Romani

Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of the gamma-ray source 4FGL J1702.7-5655, previously classified as a candidate millisecond pulsar, show highly-significant modulation at a period of 0.2438033 days (~ 5.85 hours).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 R. H. D. Corbet , L. Chomiuk , J. B. Coley , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , N. Islam , V. A. McBride , J. Stevens , J. Strader , S. J. Swihart , L. J. Townsend

We report the results from our analysis of the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope data of the \textit{Fermi} unassociated source 2FGL J1906.5$+$0720, which is a high-ranked candidate pulsar. In order to better study our target, we first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

We study the present evolutionary status of the binary system containing the 2.66 ms pulsar PSR J1417-4402 in a 5.4 day orbit. This is the pulsar in the original source 3FGL J1417.5-4402, that has undergone a transition from X-ray state to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 M. A. De Vito , J. E. Horvath , O. G. Benvenuto

We have identified an optical binary with orbital period P_b=4488s as the probable counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J1653.6-0159. Although pulsations have not yet been detected, the source properties are consistent with an evaporating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Roger W. Romani , Alexei V. Filippenko , S. Bradley Cenko

This paper reports the discovery and follow-up of four candidate redback spider pulsars: GPM J1723-33, GPM J1734-28, GPM J1752-30 and GPM J1815-14, discovered with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) from an imaging survey of the Galactic…

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…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.6$-$5618 contains a periodic optical and X-ray source that was predicted to be a "redback" millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary system. However, the conclusive identification required…

Here we report the results of searching millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidates from the Fermi LAT second source catalog (2FGL). Seven unassociated $\gamma-$ray sources in this catalog are identified as promising MSP candidates based on their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 C. Y. Hui , S. M. Park , C. P. Hu , L. C. C. Lin , K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , Ruolan Jin , T. -C. Yen , Chunglee Kim

We obtained new optical observations of the X-ray source XMMU J083850.38-282756.8, the previously proposed counterpart of the gamma-ray source 3FGL J0838.8-2829. Time-series photometry in the $r'$ band reveals periodic modulation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 J. P. Halpern , J. Strader , M. Li

Redbacks are millisecond pulsar binaries with low mass, irradiated companions. These systems have a rich phenomenology that can be used to probe binary evolution models, pulsar wind physics, and the neutron star mass distribution. A number…

4FGL J0935.5+0901, a $\gamma$-ray source recently identified as a candidate redback-type millisecond pulsar binary (MSP), shows an interesting feature of having double-peaked emission lines in its optical spectrum. The feature would further…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Dong Zheng , Zhong-Xiang Wang , Yi Xing , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

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