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We study the process of dynamical capture of a millisecond pulsar (MSP) by a single or binary IMBH, simulating various types of single-binary and binary-binary encounters. It is found that [IMBH,MSP] binaries form over cosmic time in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Devecchi , M. Colpi , M. Mapelli , A. Possenti

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

Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources through stellar evolution coupled to stellar dynamics. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) are fast rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars. According to the "canonical recycling scenario", MSPs form in binary systems containing a neutron star which is spun up through mass accretion from the evolving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 Cristina Pallanca

The X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of globular clusters (GCs) is attributed to their large fraction of compact binary systems, especially those with millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We analyze a population of 124 Galactic GCs to investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Raniere de Menezes , Federico Di Pierro , Andrea Chiavassa

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXRBs), believed to be the progenitors of recycled millisecond pulsars (MSPs), occur abundantly in globular clusters (GCs). GCs are therefore expected to host large numbers of MSPs. This is also confirmed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Venter , O. C. de Jager

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) are among the most elusive objects in contemporary astrophysics. Both theoretical and observational evidence of their existence is subject of debate. Conversely, both theory and observations confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Alberto Sesana , Nicola Sartore , Bernadetta Devecchi , Andrea Possenti

According to the recycling model, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries were spun up to millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which indicates that all MSPs in the Galactic plane ought to be harbored in binaries. However, about $20\%$ Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Long Jiang , Na Wang , Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li , Wei-Min Liu , Zhi-Fu Gao

In this study, we investigate the contribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to the gamma-ray excess observed in the Galactic Center by analyzing data from high-resolution direct N-body simulations of six globular clusters (GCs) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Dana Kuvatova , Taras Panamarev , Maryna Ishchenko , Anton Gluchshenko , Peter Berczik

It is believed that the radio pulsars rotating at spin periods of about 30 millisecond or even lower got such high spins through the transfer of angular momentum by accreting matter from their binary companions (or past companions) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-28 Arpita Choudhary

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are neutron stars with spin periods as short as a few milliseconds, formed through mass accretion from companion stars. In the dense environments of globular clusters (GCs), MSPs are likely to originate through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Yuzhe Song , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Jarrod Hurley , Rainer Spurzem , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Kai Wu

We model the dynamics of test binaries in isotropic, multi-mass models of galactic globular clusters. The evolution of binary orbits through the cluster potentials is modeled, including second order diffusion terms, and probabilities for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steinn Sigurdsson , E. S. Phinney

Low-mass binary millisecond pulsars (LMBPs) are born with very small orbital eccentricities, typically of order $e_i\sim10^{-6}$--$10^{-3}$. In globular clusters, however, higher eccentricities $e_f\gg e_i$ can be induced by dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Frederic A. Rasio , Douglas C. Heggie

Globular clusters (GCs) are particularly efficient at forming millisecond pulsars. Among these pulsars, about half lack a companion star, a significantly higher fraction than in the Galactic field. This fraction increases further in some of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Scott M. Ransom , Frederic A. Rasio

Theoretical models predict that intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) exist in globular clusters (GCs), but observational evidence remains elusive. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are abundant in GCs and have served as precise probes for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Xian Chen , Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Siyuan Chen , Kejia Lee , Yanjun Guo , Kuo Liu

The cumulative luminosity distribution functions (CLFs) of radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in globular clusters (GCs) and in the Galactic field at a frequency of 1.4 GHz have been examined. Assuming a functional form, $N \propto L^q$ where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , Ronald E. Taam

This paper presents the discovery and timing parameters for five millisecond pulsars (MSPs), four in binary systems with probable white dwarf companions and one isolated, found in ongoing processing of the High Time Resolution Universe…

Globular clusters host large populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) due to their high gravitational encounter rates, producing many binary systems and thus MSPs via the recycling process. Seven pulsars with spin periods ranging from 3 ms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Justine Singleton , Megan DeCesar , Shi Dai , Deven Bhakta , Scott Ransom , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , James Miller-Jones

High sensitivity searches of globular clusters (GC) for radio pulsars by improved pulsar search algorithms and sustained pulsar timing observations have so far yielded some 140 pulsars in more than two dozen GCs. The observed distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Manjari Bagchi , Alak Ray

The number of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed in Milky Way globular clusters has increased explosively in recent years, but the underlying population is still uncertain due to observational biases. We use state-of-the-art $N$-body…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Claire S. Ye , Giacomo Fragione
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