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We present the discovery and timing solutions of four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift-Scan Pulsar Survey. Three of these pulsars are in binary systems, consisting of a redback (PSR J2055+1545), a black…

We present a comprehensive census of X-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in 29 Galactic globular clusters (GCs), including 68 MSPs with confirmed X-ray luminosities and 107 MSPs with X-ray upper limits. We compile previous X-ray studies of GC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Jiaqi Zhao , Craig O. Heinke

Eclipsing millisecond pulsars in close ($P_b < 1$~day) binary systems provide a different view of pulsar winds and shocks than do isolated pulsars. Since 2009, the numbers of these systems known in the Galactic field has increased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Mallory S. E. Roberts , Maura A. McLaughlin , Peter Gentile , Ester Aliu , Jason W. T. Hessels , Scott M. Ransom , Paul S. Ray

Using MeerKAT, we have discovered three new millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the bulge globular cluster M62: M62H, M62I, and M62J. All three are in binary systems, which means all ten known pulsars in the cluster are in binaries. M62H has a…

We used ultra-deep UV observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope to search for optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We identified four new counterparts (to MSPs 47TucQ,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 M. Cadelano , C. Pallanca , F. R. Ferraro , M. Salaris , E. Dalessandro , B. Lanzoni , P. C. C. Freire

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

Spider millisecond pulsars are, along with some eclipsing post-common envelope systems and cataclysmic variables, part of an expanding category of compact binaries with low-mass companions for which puzzling timing anomalies have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-10 Guillaume Voisin , René Breton , Charlotte Summers

The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars with massive compact companions (white dwarfs with masses $M>1.0 {\rm M_{\odot}}$, neutron stars or black holes).…

We have conducted a systematic survey for the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Currently, there are 47 MSPs with confirmed X-ray detections. We have also placed the upper limits for the X-ray emission from the other 36 MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , K. S. Cheng

We present the discovery of PSR J1728-4608, a new redback spider pulsar identified in images from the Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope. PSR J1728-4608 is a millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 2.86 ms, in a 5.05 hr orbit with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 F. Petrou , Y. Wang , N. Hurley-Walker , S. McSweeney , L. Zhang , R. G. Key , J. Freeburn , B. W. Meyers , David L. Kaplan , A. Zic , Tara Murphy , D. Dobie , Y. Maan

Pulsar binaries, in particular redback systems, provide good sources to study the pulsar wind flow and its interaction with the companion stars. {\it Fermi}-LAT have proposed probable pulsar binary candidates in its catalogs. To identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-14 Partha Sarathi Pal , P. H. T. Tam , Weitang Liang , Chengye Cao , K. L. Li , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, a series of observations have been conducted to time the known pulsars and search for new pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 6440. As a result, two pulsars have been discovered, NGC 6440G and NGC 6440H,…

We conducted a sensitive acceleration search using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) techniques on full-length and segmented data from 84 observations of the globular cluster M13 with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Dejiang Yin , Lin Wang , Li-yun Zhang , Lei Qian , Baoda Li , Kuo Liu , Bo Peng , Yinfeng Dai , Yaowei Li , Zhichen Pan

We report the discovery and characterization of PSR J1810-0623, a fully recycled millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 4.55 ms, discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and followed up with FAST…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Jie Zhang , Zerui Wang , Lei Zhang , Yulan Liu , Alessandro Ridolfi , Meng Guo , Di Li , Ryan S. Lynch , Cong Wang , Pei Wang , Mengmeng Ni , Jiale Hu , Mengquan Liu , Zhie Liu , Bo Han , Chenchen Miao

The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars with massive compact companions like massive white dwarfs (M > 1.0 Msun), neutron stars or stellar mass black…

We report on the follow-up observations of circularly polarized sources identified in the MeerKAT image-based survey of the Galactic bulge. Using the Parkes radio telescope, we observed sixteen circularly polarized sources with the UWL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Rahul Sengar , Akash Anumarlapudi , David L. Kaplan , Dale A. Frail , Scott D. Hyman , Emil Polisensky

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

Binaries harbouring millisecond pulsars enable a unique path to determine neutron star masses: radio pulsations reveal the motion of the neutron star, while that of the companion can be characterised through studies in the optical range.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 D. Mata Sánchez , A. G. Istrate , M. H. van Kerkwijk , R. P. Breton , D. L. Kaplan

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

By January 2025, 60 pulsars were discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope globular cluster (GC) pulsar survey (GC FANS), with spin periods spanning 1.98 ms to 3960.72 ms. Of these, 55 are millisecond pulsars…