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We present a comparative study of the low-frequency eclipses of spider (compact, irradiating binary) PSRs B1957+20 and J1816+4510. Combining these data with those of three other eclipsing systems we study the frequency dependence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 E. J. Polzin , R. P. Breton , B. Bhattacharyya , D. Scholte , C. Sobey , B. W. Stappers

PSR\,J1723$-$2837 is a "redback" millisecond pulsar (MSP) with a low-mass companion in a 14.8\,h orbit. The system's properties closely resemble those of "transitional" MSPs that alternate between spin-down and accretion-powered states. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-08 André van Staden , John Antoniadis

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) provides advantages for radio pulsar searches by enabling efficient target selection. We can confidently point radio telescopes to the positions of Fermi unidentified gamma-ray sources that have a high…

After its discovery in 2016, the white dwarf binary AR Scorpii (AR Sco) remained for several years the only white dwarf system to show pulsed radio emission associated with a fast-spinning white dwarf. The evolutionary origin and the…

We report on eight millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in binary systems discovered with the Arecibo PALFA survey. Phase-coherent timing solutions derived from 2.5 to 5 years of observations carried out at Arecibo and Jodrell Bank observatories are…

In the past five years, approximately one third of the 65 pulsars discovered by radio observations of Fermi unassociated sources are black widow pulsars (BWPs). BWPs are binary millisecond pulsars with companion masses ranging from 0.01-0.1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-26 Christopher Bochenek , Scott Ransom , Paul Demorest

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs), which are systems that harbor a pulsar in the throes of the recycling process, have emerged as a new source class since the discovery of the first such system a decade ago. These systems switch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Amruta Jaodand , Jason W. T. Hessels , Anne M. Archibald

We are starting a project to find $\gamma$-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) among the unidentified sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, by radio observations. The selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

This study presents an orbital phase-dependent analysis of three black widow spider millisecond pulsars (BW MSPs), aiming to investigate the magnetic field within the eclipse environment. The ultra-wide-bandwidth low-frequency receiver…

The sensitivity of the MeerKAT radio interferometer is an opportunity to probe deeper into the population of rare and faint extragalactic pulsars. The TRAPUM (TRAnsients and PUlsars with MeerKAT) collaboration has conducted a radio-domain…

Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modelling the free electron density in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Sindre S. Lindseth , Manuel Linares , Alice K. Harding , Marco Turchetta

We present the discovery and phase-coherent timing of four highly dispersed millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Arecibo PALFA Galactic plane survey: PSRs J1844+0115, J1850+0124, J1900+0308, and J1944+2236. Three of the four pulsars are in…

We present results from a long-term monitoring of frequency dependent eclipses of the radio emission from PSR J1544+4937 which is a ``black widow spider'' millisecond pulsar (MSP) in a compact binary system. The majority of such systems…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Sangita Kumari , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Rahul Sharan , Devojyoti Kansabanik , Benjamin Stappers , Jayanta Roy

The incidence of evaporating 'black widow' pulsars (BWPs) among all millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is far higher in globular clusters than in the field. This implies a special formation mechanism for them in clusters. Cluster MSPs in wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. King , M. B. Davies , M. E. Beer

We consider the evolution of millisecond radio pulsars in binary systems with a main-sequence or evolved stellar companion. Evolution of non-accreting binary systems with "eclipsing" milisecond pulsars was described by Klu\'zniak, Czerny &…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-20 Filip Ficek , Mieszko Rutkowski , Włodek Kluźniak

Extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) are helium-core white dwarfs with masses less than 0.3 $M_{\odot}$. Short-period ELM WD binaries that exhibit ellipsoidal variations may harbor heavier companions, either massive white dwarfs or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 W. J. Huang , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , L. L. Ren , J. M. Lin

PSR J1306--40 is a millisecond pulsar binary with a non-degenerate companion in an unusually long $\sim$1.097 day orbit. We present new optical photometry and spectroscopy of this system, and model these data to constrain fundamental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Laura Shishkovsky

Following our work presented in Dai et al. (2016), we report our detailed data analysis for another 38 Fermi gamma-ray un-associated sources. These sources are selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) third source catalog on the…

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

We have searched 75 unidentified radio sources selected from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) catalog for the presence of rapidly spinning pulsars and short, dispersed radio bursts. The sources are radio bright, have no identifications or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Deborah Schmidt , Fronefield Crawford , Glen Langston , Claire Gilpin

We present rotational and astrometric parameters of three millisecond pulsars located near the center of the globular cluster NGC 6266 (M62) resulting from timing observations with the Parkes radio telescope. Their accelerations toward the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Possenti , N. D'Amico , R. N. Manchester , F. Camilo , A. G. Lyne , J. Sarkissian , A. Corongiu