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We report the discovery of ten new pulsars in the globular cluster Terzan 5 as part of the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) Large Survey Project. We observed Terzan 5 at L-band (856--1712 MHz) with the MeerKAT radio telescope…

We report the discovery of 13 new pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 1851 by the TRAPUM Large Survey Project using the MeerKAT radio telescope. The discoveries consist of six isolated millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and seven binary pulsars, of…

Based on over 5400 BV images of 47 Tuc collected between 1998 and 2010 we obtained light curves of 65 variables, 21 of which are newly detected objects. New variables are located mostly just outside of the core in a region poorly studied by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 J. Kaluzny , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , W. Krzeminski , K. Zloczewski , W. Narloch

The most massive globular cluster in our Galaxy, Omega Centauri, is an interesting target for pulsar searches, because of its multiple stellar populations and the intriguing possibility that it was once the nucleus of a galaxy that was…

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…

The first eclipsing binary pulsar, PSR B1957+20, was discovered in 1987. Since then, 13 other eclipsing low-mass binary pulsars have been found, 12 of these are in globular clusters. In this paper we list the known eclipsing binary pulsars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Paulo C. C. Freire

Over the past decade the discovery of three unique stellar populations and a large number of confirmed pulsars within the globular cluster Terzan 5 has raised questions over its classification. Using the long-term radio pulsar timing of 36…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Brian Prager , Scott Ransom , Paulo Freire , Jason Hessels , Ingrid Stairs , Phil Arras , Mario Cadelano

We study luminosities of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters by fitting the observed luminosity distribution with single and double power laws. We use simulations to model the observed distribution as the brighter part of some parent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-05 Manjari Bagchi , Duncan R. Lorimer

We analyze the observed distribution of the orbital eccentricity and period of binary radio pulsars in globular clusters using computational tools to simulate binary-single star interactions. Globular clusters have different groups of…

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

The galactic population of globular clusters are old, dense star systems, with a typical cluster containing $10^4 - 10^6$ stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Matthew Benacquista

Pulsars are often lauded for their (relative) rotational and radio emission stability over long time scales. However, long-term observing programmes are identifying an increasing number of pulsars that deviate from this preconceived notion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 M. E. Lower , A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , P. R. Brook , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Motivated by the recent discovery of 30 new millisecond pulsars in Terzan 5, made using the Green Bank Telescope's S-band receiver and the Pulsar Spigot spectrometer, we have set out to use the same observing system in a systematic search…

We have been conducting deep searches at ~20 cm of >30 globular clusters (GCs) using the 305-m Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and the 100-m Green Bank telescope (GBT) in West Virginia. With roughly 80% of our search data analyzed, we have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Ransom , Jason Hessels , Ingrid Stairs , Victoria Kaspi , Paulo Freire , Donald Backer

The discovery of planets around PSR~1257+12 suggests that planetary systems may be detected around the recycled pulsars found in globular clusters. Planetary systems in dense clusters have lifetimes to disruption due to perturbations by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Steinn Sigurdsson

We review the properties and applications of binary and millisecond pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has greatly increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which have brought the known pulsar population to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 D. R. Lorimer

We investigate the dynamical formation and evolution of binaries containing neutron stars in dense globular clusters. Our numerical simulations combine a simple Monte Carlo prescription for stellar dynamics, a sophisticated binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalia Ivanova , John M. Fregeau , Frederic A. Rasio

MeerKAT imaging of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) reveals 1.28 GHz continuum emission at the locations of 20 known millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We use time series and spectral imaging to investigate the image-domain characteristics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Ian Heywood

Among the $\sim 4000$ known pulsars in our Galaxy, $\lesssim 10\%$ are found in globular clusters, but none has been confirmed in any open clusters yet, although they outnumber globular clusters by about 20 times. In this work, we make use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Lu Zhou , Zhi-Qiang You , Lu Li , Xiao-Jin Liu , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Zong-Hong Zhu

We report the discovery of seven new millisecond pulsars during 20 cm searches of 19 globular clusters using the recently upgraded Arecibo Telescope and the new Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Five of the pulsars are in compact binaries, three…

We have observed a total of 67 pulsars at five frequencies ranging from 243 to 3100 MHz. Observations at the lower frequencies were made at the Giant Metre Wave Telescope in India and those at higher frequencies at the Parkes Telescope in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , Aris Karastergiou , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta