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We present the main results obtained from the COmpact BInary Pulsar search in the low-LAtitude NEighborhood (COBIPLANE), an optical photometric survey designed to find new `spider' binary millisecond pulsars. We conducted observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Marco Turchetta , Manuel Linares , Karri Koljonen , Paulo A. Miles-Páez , Jordan A. Simpson

Context. Spider pulsars are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems, in which a low-mass companion star is heated and ablated by the pulsar wind. Their observations allow one to study stellar evolution with formation of millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 A. V. Karpova , S. V. Zharikov , D. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Kirichenko , Yu. A. Shibanov , I. F. Márquez

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.…

We have discovered a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar binary near the center of the error ellipse of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J0940.3-7610. The candidate counterpart is a variable optical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Laura Chomiuk , Kristen C. Dage , Laura Shishkovsky

We present a search for new spider pulsar candidates through multi-wavelength cross-matching, including $\gamma$-ray, X-ray, and optical data. A search for sinusoidal-like optical modulations in TESS data of 183 eROSITA X-ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Xiaoqing Liang , Partha Sarathi Pal , P. H. Thomas Tam , Rishank Diwan , Wen-Jun Huang

In the last few years, over 43 millisecond radio pulsars have been discovered by targeted searches of unidentified gamma-ray sources found by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. A large fraction of these millisecond pulsars are in compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. P. Breton , M. H. van Kerkwijk , M. S. E. Roberts , J. W. T. Hessels , F. Camilo , M. A. McLaughlin , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , I. H. Stairs

About one third of the 3033 $\gamma$-ray sources in the Third Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Source Catalogue (3FGL) are unidentified and do not have even a tentative association with a known object, hence they are defined as unassociated. Among…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Salvetti , R. P. Mignani , A. De Luca , M. Marelli , C. Pallanca , A. A. Breeveld , P. Husemann , A. Belfiore , W. Becker , J. Greiner

We present the discovery of a new optical/X-ray source likely associated with the Fermi $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1408.6-2917. Its high-amplitude periodic optical variability, large spectroscopic radial velocity semi-amplitude, evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Elias Aydi , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Paul S. Ray , Matthew Kerr

We report our detailed data analysis for 39 $\gamma$-ray sources selected from the 992 unassociated sources in the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) third source catalog. The selection criteria, which were set for finding candidate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-03 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , V. Jithesh , Yi Xing

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 present a multi-wavelength study of the unassociated Fermi-LAT source, 3FGL J0954.8-3948, which is likely the gamma-ray counterpart of a 9.3-hour binary in the field. With more than 9 years of Pass 8 LAT data, we updated the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Kwan-Lok Li , Xian Hou , Jay Strader , Jumpei Takata , Albert K. H. Kong , Laura Chomiuk , Samuel J. Swihart , Chung Yue Hui , K. S. Cheng

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 report the discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a search of a Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source with no known associations, with the Nancay Radio Telescope. The new pulsar, confirmed with the Green Bank Telescope,…

We have discovered a new X-ray emitting compact binary that is the likely counterpart to the unassociated Fermi-LAT GeV $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1120.0-2204, the second brightest Fermi source that still remains formally unidentified. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Laura Chomiuk , Kristen C. Dage , Adam Kawash , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Elizabeth C. Ferrara

We present SpiderCat, a multiwavelength catalog of all publicly known compact binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic field. These systems, colloquially known as "spiders," consist of neutron stars in tight orbits with low-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Manuel Linares

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

We present timing solutions for eight binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered by searching unidentified Fermi-LAT source positions with the 327 MHz receiver of the Arecibo 305-m radio telescope. Five of the pulsars are "spiders" with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 J. S. Deneva , P. S. Ray , F. Camilo , P. C. C. Freire , H. T. Cromartie , S. M. Ransom , E. Ferrara , M. Kerr , T. H. Burnett , P. M. Saz Parkinson

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…

We report the results of searching pulsar-like candidates from the unidentified objects in the $3^{\rm rd}$ Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT sources (3FHL). Using a machine-learning based classification scheme with a nominal accuracy of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-01 C. Y. Hui , Jongsu Lee , K. L. Li , Sangin Kim , Kwangmin Oh , Shengda Luo , Alex P. Leung , A. K. H. Kong , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

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…

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