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Binaries harboring a millisecond pulsar (MSP) and a black hole (BH) are a key observing target for current and upcoming pulsar surveys. We model the formation and evolution of such binaries in isolation at solar metallicity using the…

We have conducted a search of 19 southern Galactic globular clusters for sub-millisecond pulsars at 660 MHz with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. To minimize dispersion smearing we used the CPSR baseband recorder, which samples the 20 MHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. T. Edwards , W. van Straten , M. Bailes

We present the discovery of 24 pulsars in 15 Globular Clusters (GCs) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These include the first pulsar discoveries in M2, M10, and M14. Most of the new systems are either…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Xiaoyun Ma , Kuo Liu , Lin Wang , Jintao Luo , Zhen Yan , Scott Ransom , Duncan Lorimer , Di Li , Peng Jiang

We have used the central 44 antennas of the new 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope array to conduct a deep search for new pulsars in the core of nine globular clusters. This has led to the discovery of eight new millisecond pulsars in six…

Although only 22 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are currently known to exist in the globular cluster (GC) 47 Tucanae, this cluster may harbor 30-60 MSPs, or even up to ~200. In this Letter, we model the pulsed curvature radiation (CR) gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-30 C. Venter , O. C. de Jager

It is well-known that some star clusters contain composite stellar populations (CSPs), in which the metallicities or (and) ages of stars are different. The formation and evolution of such clusters and their stellar populations remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Zhongmu Li , Rainer Spurzem

Radio pulsars with millisecond spin periods are thought to have been spun up by transfer of matter and angular momentum from a low-mass companion star during an X-ray-emitting phase. The spin periods of the neutron stars in several such…

We produce synthetic populations of pulsars within our Galaxy and calculate the resulting scale heights as well as the radial and space velocity distributions of the pulsars. Results are presented for isolated pulsars, binary pulsars and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley

The timing follow-up of newly discovered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is hindered by the larger positional uncertainty (a few tens of arc-minutes) associated with the discovery. In this paper, we present the localization of two MSPs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Shyam Sunder , Jayanta Roy , Sanjay Kudale , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Arpit K. Behera , Shubham Singh

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are generally believed to be old neutron stars (NSs), formed via type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae (SNe), which have been spun up to high rotation rates via accretion from a companion star in a low-mass X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Thomas M. Tauris , Debashis Sanyal , Sung-Chul Yoon , Norbert Langer

We present a novel method that enables us to estimate the acceleration of individual millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using only their spin period and its time derivative. For our binary MSP sample, we show that one can obtain an empirical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-23 Thomas Donlon , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Sophia Vanderwaal , Lawrence M. Widrow , Scott Ransom , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are mainly characterised by their spin periods, B-fields and masses - quantities which are largely affected by previous interactions with a companion star in a binary system. In this paper, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-30 Thomas M. Tauris , Norbert Langer , Michael Kramer

A recent radio survey of globular clusters has increased the number of millisecond pulsars drastically. M28 is now the globular cluster with the third largest population of known pulsars, after Terzan 5 and 47 Tuc. This prompted us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Becker , C. Y. Hui

Eccentric millisecond pulsar + helium white dwarf (MSP + He WD) systems have attracted increasing attention, with the rotationally delayed accretion-induced collapse (RD-AIC) scenario proposed as a possible formation channel. Given the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiangcun Meng

The recycling model suggested that low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) could evolve into binary millisecond pulsars (BMSPs). In this work, we attempt to investigate the progenitor properties of BMSPs formed by the recycling evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei-Min Liu , Wen-Cong Chen

Understanding the physics of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) presents a number of challenges compared to that of the non-recycled pulsar population. Even though their fast rotation rates can produce high spin-down power and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Alice K. Harding

According to the recycling scenario, millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have evolved from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Their orbits are expected to be circular due to tidal interactions during the binary evolution, as observed in most of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Long Jiang , Xiang-Dong Li , Jishnu Dey , Mira Dey

A new measurement of a spatially extended gamma-ray signal from the center of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been recently published by the Fermi-LAT collaboration, reporting that the emission broadly resembles the so-called Galactic center…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are laboratories for stellar evolution, strong gravity, and ultra-dense matter. Although MSPs are thought to originate in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), approximately 27% lack a binary companion, and others are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 S. Chanlaridis , D. Ohse , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo , J. Antoniadis , D. Blaschke , V. Danchev , N. Langer , D. Misra

We present the discovery of six millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey for pulsars and fast transients carried out with the Parkes radio telescope. All six are in binary systems with approximately…