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We report on the results of a search for radio pulsars in five supernova remnants (SNRs) with FAST. The observations were made using the 19-beam receiver in the Snapshot mode. The integration time for each pointing is 10 min. We discovered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-28 Zhen Zhang , Wen-Ming Yan , Jian-Ping Yuan , Na Wang , Jun-Tao Bai , Zhi-Gang Wen , Bao-Da Li , Jin-Tao Xie , De Zhao , Yu-Bin Wang , Nan-Nan Zhai

The timing follow-up of newly discovered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is hindered by the larger positional uncertainty (a few tens of arc-minutes) associated with the discovery. In this paper, we present the localization of two MSPs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Shyam Sunder , Jayanta Roy , Sanjay Kudale , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Arpit K. Behera , Shubham Singh

Until now X-radiation from nine millisecond pulsars has been detected. In the present paper we summarize the observations and show the results of a re-analysis of archival ROSAT data. In addition we present the results of recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Becker , J. Trümper

We present an analysis of 745.6 ks of archival Chandra X-ray Observatory Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer data accumulated between 2000 and 2016 of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) population in the rich Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Slavko Bogdanov , Arash Bahramian , Craig O. Heinke , Scott M. Ransom

XSS J12270-4859 is an X-ray binary associated with the Fermi LAT gamma-ray source 1FGL J1227.9-4852. In 2012 December, this source underwent a transition where the X-ray and optical luminosity dropped and the spectral signatures of an…

Radio timing observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in support of Fermi LAT observations of the gamma-ray sky enhance the sensitivity of high-energy pulsation searches. With contemporaneous ephemerides we have detected gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

In Torne et al. (2015), we showed detections of SGR J1745-2900 up to 225 GHz (1.33 mm); at that time the highest radio frequency detection of pulsar emission. In this work, we present the results of new observations of the same magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 P. Torne , G. Desvignes , R. P. Eatough , R. Karuppusamy , G. Paubert , M. Kramer , I. Cognard , D. J. Champion , L. G. Spitler

PSR~J1618$-$3921 is an $11.99$-ms pulsar in a $22.7$-d orbit around a likely low-mass He white dwarf companion, discovered in a survey of the intermediate Galactic latitudes at 1400 MHz conducted with the Parkes radio telescope in the late…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 F. Octau , I. Cognard , L. Guillemot , T. M. Tauris , P. C. C. Freire , G. Desvignes , G. Theureau

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are old neutron stars that spin hundreds of times per second and appear to pulsate as their emission beams cross our line of sight. To date, radio pulsations have been detected from all rotation-powered MSPs. In…

Observations with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveal an excess of extended gamma-ray emission likely caused by an undiscovered population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the core of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Lucia Gebauer-Werner , Oscar Macias , Christoph Weniger

With unparalleled rotational stability, millisecond pulsars (MSPs) serve as ideal laboratories for numerous astrophysical studies, many of which require precise knowledge of the distance and/or velocity of the MSP. Here, we present the…

PSR J0514-4002A is a 5-ms pulsar is located in the globular cluster NGC 1851; it belongs to a highly eccentric (e = 0.888) binary system. It is one of the earliest known examples of a numerous and fast-growing class of eccentric binary MSPs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paulo C. C. Freire , Scott M. Ransom , Yashwant Gupta

We have searched 92 unidentified sources from the FIRST and NVSS 1400 MHz radio survey catalogs for radio pulsations at 610 MHz. The selected radio sources are bright, have no identification with extragalactic objects, are point-like and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fronefield Crawford , Victoria M. Kaspi , Jon F. Bell

We report the discovery of PSR J1747-2958, a radio pulsar with period P = 98 ms and dispersion measure DM = 101 pc/cc, in a deep observation with the Parkes telescope of the axially-symmetric "Mouse" radio nebula (G359.23-0.82). Timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester , B. M. Gaensler , D. R. Lorimer

This paper reports recent discoveries from the Globular Clusters GMRT Pulsar Search (GCGPS) survey, which aims to uncover pulsars in the globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).…

PSR J1618-3921 is one of five known millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in eccentric orbits (eMPSs) located in the Galactic plane, whose formation is poorly understood. Earlier studies of these objects revealed significant discrepancies between…

We have discovered six radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in a search with the Arecibo telescope of 34 unidentified gamma-ray sources from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) 4-year point source catalog. Among the 34 sources, we also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 H. T. Cromartie , F. Camilo , M. Kerr , J. S. Deneva , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , E. C. Ferrara , P. F. Michelson , K. S. Wood

We present results from a search for pulsars in globular clusters, including the discovery of a new millisecond pulsar in the stellar cluster GLIMPSE-C01. We searched for low frequency radio sources within 97 globular clusters using images…

More than 300 pulsars have been discovered in Galactic globular clusters; however, none have been found in open clusters. Here we present results from 20-hour pulsar searching observations in seven open clusters with the Five-hundred-meter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-03 Xiao-Jin Liu , Rahul Sengar , Matthew Bailes , Ralph P. Eatough , Jianping Yuan , Na Wang , Weiwei Zhu , Lu Zhou , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu , Xing-Jiang Zhu

About 100 millisecond (ms) pulsars have been identified in the Galaxy, and only ~10% of them are solitary, i.e. without a binary companion. Nothing is known on the optical emission properties of millisecond pulsars. Observations of solitary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto P. Mignani , Werner Becker