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Binary and Millisecond pulsars have a great deal to teach us about stellar evolution and are invaluable tools for tests of relativistic theories of gravity. Our understanding of these objects has been transformed by large-scale surveys that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Bailes

In this paper, we study compact binary millisecond pulsars with low- and very low-mass companion stars (spiders) in the Galactic field, using data from the latest Gaia data release (DR3). We infer the parallax distances of the optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Manuel Linares

Blackwidow and redback systems are millisecond pulsars in compact orbits with ultra-light and low-mass companions, respectively, collectively known as ``spider pulsars". In such systems, an intrabinary shock can form between the pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Manuel Linares

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

In the absence of constraints from the binary companion or supernova remnant, the standard method for estimating pulsar ages is to infer an age from the rate of spin-down. While the generic spin-down age may give realistic estimates for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 Bulent Kiziltan , Stephen E. Thorsett

We have computed an extensive grid of binary evolution tracks to represent low- and intermediate mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs and IMXBs). The grid includes 42,000 models which covers 60 initial donor masses over the range of 1-4 solar masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Jinrong Lin , S. Rappaport , Ph. Podsiadlowski , L. Nelson , B. Paxton , P. Todorov

The optical study of the heated substellar companions of `Black Widow' (BW) millisecond pulsars (MSP) provides unique information on the MSP particle and radiation output and on the neutron star mass. Here we present analysis of optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 D. Kandel , Roger W. Romani

The role and implication of binding energy through the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of accreting white dwarfs (WDs) for the production of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are investigated. I examine the binding energy model due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Ali Taani

Binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) provide several opportunities for research of fundamental physics. However, finding them can be challenging. Several subdwarf B (sdB) binary systems with possible neutron star companions have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 L. C. Oostrum , J. van Leeuwen , Y. Maan , T. Coenen , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

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

We investigate the formation and evolutionary sequences of Galactic intermediate- and low-mass X-ray binaries (I/LMXBs) by combining binary population synthesis (BPS) and detailed stellar evolutionary calculations. Using an updated BPS code…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Yong Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

Orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars' formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects. Advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters accurately in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Manjari Bagchi

Intermediate-mass binary pulsars (IMBPs) are composed of neutron stars (NSs) and CO/ONe white dwarfs (WDs). It is generally suggested that IMBPs evolve from intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXBs). However, this scenario is difficult to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Tang Wenshi , Liu Dongdong , Wang Bo

Millisecond pulsars are old, fast spinning neutron stars thought to have evolved from classical pulsars in binary systems, where the rapid rotation is caused by the accretion of matter and angular momentum from their companion. During this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Marilyn Cruces , Andreas Reisenegger , Thomas M. Tauris

Millisecond pulsars are thought to be neutron stars that have been spun-up by accretion of matter from a binary companion. Although most are in binary systems, some 30% are solitary, and their origin is therefore mysterious. PSR J1719-1438,…

Black widows (BWs) are a type of eclipsing millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with companion masses $M_2$ $\lesssim 0.05\,\rm M_\odot$, which can be used to study the accretion history and the radiation of pulsars, as well as the origin of isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Yunlang Guo , Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

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

Typical radio pulsars are magnetized neutron stars that are born rapidly rotating and slow down as they age on time scales of 10 to 100 million years. However, millisecond radio pulsars spin very rapidly even though many are billions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Deepto Chakrabarty , Edward H. Morgan

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are thought to originate from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The discovery of eclipsing radio MSPs including redbacks and black widows indicates that evaporation of the donor star by the MSP's irradiation takes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Kun Jia , Xiang-Dong Li

We study the evolution of Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) and of millisecond binary radio pulsars (MSPs), with numerical simulations that keep into account the evolution of the companion, of the binary system and of the neutron star.…

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