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We report on orbital modulation of the 100-600 MeV gamma-ray emission of the $P_{\rm B}=4.6$ hr millisecond pulsar binary PSR J2339$-$0533 using 11 yr of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The modulation has high significance (chance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Hongjun An , Roger W. Romani , Matthew Kerr

We report here the results obtained from a systematic optical photometric survey aimed at finding new compact binary millisecond pulsars (also known as "spiders"): the COmpact BInary PULsar SEarch (COBIPULSE). We acquired multi-band optical…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are faint X-ray sources commonly observed in Galactic globular clusters (GCs). In this work, we investigate 18 MSPs newly found in the GC Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) and search for their X-ray counterparts using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Jiaqi Zhao , Craig O. Heinke

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

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

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

The detected population of "spiders" has significantly grown in the past decade thanks to multiwavelength follow-up investigations of unidentified Fermi sources. These systems consist of low-mass stellar companions orbiting rotation-powered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 C. Guerra , Z. Meliani , G. Voisin

We report our discovery of orbitally modulated $\gamma$-ray emission from the black widow system PSR J1311-3430. We analyze the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope data during the offpulse phase interval of the pulsar, and find the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

Spider pulsars are systems in which a millisecond pulsar (MSP) tightly orbits (Pb $\lesssim$ 1 day) a low mass (mc $\lesssim$ 0.5 M$_\odot$) semi-degenerate star. Spider often display eclipses around superior conjunction. This eclipse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 Clara Blanchard , Lucas Guillemot , Guillaume Voisin , Ismaël Cognard , Gilles Theureau

We report the discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from the nearby isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST). This discovery makes PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 LAT Collaboration

We study the gamma-ray spectra of 30 globular clusters (GCs) thus far detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Presuming that gamma-ray emission of a GC comes from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) contained in, a model that generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei Wu , Zhongxiang Wang , Yi Xing , Pengfei Zhang

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

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

A 2.1-year periodic oscillation of the gamma-ray flux from the blazar PG 1553+113 has previously been tentatively identified in almost 7 year of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. After 15 years of Fermi sky-survey observations,…

We present GTC-OSIRIS phase-resolved optical spectroscopy of three compact binary MSPs, or 'spiders': PSR J1048+2339, PSR J1810+1744, and (for the first time) PSR J1908+2105. For the companion in each system, the temperature is traced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Jordan A. Simpson , Manuel Linares , Jorge Casares , Tariq Shahbaz , Bidisha Sen , Fernando Camilo

PSR J2039-5617 is a redback millisecond pulsar binary system consisting of a compact star with a mass of 1.1-1.6 $M_\odot$ and a low-mass companion of 0.15-0.22 $M_\odot$. For this binary, we performed a timing analysis using 16 years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Mengqing Zhang , Shengbin Pei , Shan Chang , Pengfei Zhang

In this article, we revisit the gamma-ray emission observed from millisecond pulsars and globular clusters. Based on 5.6 years of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, we report gamma-ray spectra for 61 millisecond pulsars, finding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-22 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

The X-ray and gamma-ray spectrum of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars is investigated in a model for acceleration and pair cascades on open field lines above the polar caps. Although these pulsars have low surface magnetic fields, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Vladimir V. Usov , Alex G. Muslimov

The nine millisecond pulsars (MSPs) that have now been detected by Fermi-LAT are providing an excellent opportunity to probe the emission geometry of these ancient compact objects. As they are radio-loud, one may use the relative phase lags…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-15 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot
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