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Eclipsing millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a type of pulsar binaries with close orbits ($\lesssim1.0\,$d). They are important objects for studying the accretion history of neutron stars (NSs), pulsar winds, and the origin of isolated MSPs,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Yunlang Guo , Bo Wang , Xiangdong Li , Dongdong Liu , Wenshi Tang

This paper uses population synthesis to investigate the possible origin of isolated millisecond pulsars (IMSPs) as born from the coalescence of a neutron star (NS) and a white dwarf (WD). Results show that the galactic birth - rate of IMSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Shengnan Sun , Lin Li , Helei Liu , Guoliang Lü , Zhaojun Wang , Chunhua Zhu

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

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are mainly characterised by their spin periods, B-fields and masses - quantities which are largely affected by previous interactions with a companion star in a binary system. In this paper, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-30 Thomas M. Tauris , Norbert Langer , Michael Kramer

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are generally agreed to originate in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), in which mass transfer onto the neutron stars spins them up to their observed, fast rotation. The lack of MSPs and LMXBs rotating near break-up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Reisenegger , Axel Bonacic

Observations of a large population of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) show a wide divergence in the orbital periods (from approximately hours to a few months). In the standard view, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries (LMXBs) are considered as progenitors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ali Taani , Chengmin Zhang , Mashhoor Al-Wardat , Yongheng Zhao

Recently, extra motivation has been given to the investigations of an unresolved problem of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) produced by the recycling process, as an apparent role of the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) in white dwarfs (WDs) was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Ali Taani

To track the formation and evolution links of the millisecond pulsars (MSPs) powered by accretion and rotation in the Galactic field, we investigate the spin period (P) and spin-down power (Edot) distributions of the MSPs observed at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-21 De-Hua Wang , Cheng-Min Zhang , Shuang-Qiang Wang

Radio pulsars with millisecond spin periods are thought to have been spun up by transfer of matter and angular momentum from a low-mass companion star during an X-ray-emitting phase. The spin periods of the neutron stars in several such…

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

In this paper we review the recent discovery of several millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in eccentric binary systems. Timing these MSPs we were able to estimate (and in one case precisely measure) their masses. These results suggest that, as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-21 Paulo C. C. Freire

We propose a possible binary evolution model for the formation of ultra-long period pulsars (ULPPs). The model involves two key stages: first, a neutron star (NS) in wide binaries undergoes an effective spin-down phase through wind-fed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Ying-Han Mao , Xiang-Dong Li , Dong Lai , Zhu-Ling Deng , Hao-Ran Yang

Recent observations have unveiled a population of pulsars with spin periods of a few minutes to hours that lie beyond the traditional ``death line.'' If they originate from neutron stars (NSs), the existence of such ultra-long period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Savannah Cary , Wenbin Lu , Calvin Leung , Tin Long Sunny Wong

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are laboratories for stellar evolution, strong gravity, and ultra-dense matter. Although MSPs are thought to originate in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), approximately 27% lack a binary companion, and others are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 S. Chanlaridis , D. Ohse , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo , J. Antoniadis , D. Blaschke , V. Danchev , N. Langer , D. Misra

The discovery of millisecond pulsations from neutron stars in low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems has substantiated the theoretical prediction that links millisecond radio pulsars (MSRPs) and LMXBs. Since then, the process that produces…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-18 Bulent Kiziltan , Stephen. E. Thorsett

Understanding the physics of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) presents a number of challenges compared to that of the non-recycled pulsar population. Even though their fast rotation rates can produce high spin-down power and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Alice K. Harding

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are neutron stars with spin periods as short as a few milliseconds, formed through mass accretion from companion stars. In the dense environments of globular clusters (GCs), MSPs are likely to originate through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Yuzhe Song , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Jarrod Hurley , Rainer Spurzem , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Kai Wu

We study the statistics of 61 measured masses of neutron stars (NSs) in binary pulsar systems, including 18 double NS (DNS) systems, 26 radio pulsars (10 in our Galaxy) with white dwarf (WD) companions, 3 NSs with main-sequence companions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. M. Zhang , J. Wang , Y. H. Zhao , H. X. Yin , L. M. Song , D. P. Menezes , D. T. Wickramasinghe , L. Ferrario , P. Chardonnet

Compact binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with orbital periods $\lesssim1$d are key to understanding binary evolution involving massive neutron stars (NSs). Due to the ablation of the companion by the rapidly spinning pulsar, these systems…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-31 Devina Misra , Manuel Linares , Claire S. Ye

Isolated millisecond pulsars (IMSPs) are a topic of academic contention. There are various models to explain their formation. We explore the formation of IMSP via quark novae (QN). During this formation process, low-mass X-ray binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Chunhua Zhu , Guoliang Lü , Zhaojun Wang , Lin LI , Helei Liu