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Millisecond pulsars are thought to be neutron stars that have been spun-up by accretion of matter from a binary companion. Although most are in binary systems, some 30% are solitary, and their origin is therefore mysterious. PSR J1719-1438,…

Binary radio pulsars, first discovered by Hulse and Taylor in 1974 [1], are a unique tool for experimentally testing general relativity (GR), whose validity has been confirmed with a precision unavailable in laboratory experiments. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G S Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The obvious lack of the binary stellar systems that contain neutron stars (NS) is observed at present. Partly it is caused by the fact that it is very difficult to detect neutron star in a binary system if this relativistic component does…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 O. M. Ulyanov , S. M. Andrievsky , V. F. Gopka , A. V. Shavrina

Binaries have played a crucial role many times in the history of modern astronomy and are doing so again in the rapidly evolving exploration of the Kuiper Belt. The large fraction of transneptunian objects that are binary or multiple, 48…

The precise origins of the millisecond radio pulsars, discovered in the early 1980s, remain uncertain until this day. They plausibly evolve from accreting low magnetic-field neutron stars in X-ray binary systems. If so, these stars should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

Binary stars have long been considered to play a crucial role in globular cluster evolution, and offer the advantages of studying systems at the same, well-determined distances. However, early search attempts were consistently thwarted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter D. Edmonds

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are abundant in globular clusters (GCs), which offer favorable environments for their creation. While the advent of recent, powerful facilities led to a rapid increase in MSP discoveries in GCs through pulsation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Joanna Berteaud , Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Maïca Clavel , Daryl Haggard

Up to November 2022, 267 pulsars have been discovered in 36 globular clusters (GCs). In this paper, we present our studies on the distribution of GC pulsar parameters and the detection efficiency. The power law relation between the average…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-20 De-Jiang Yin , Li-Yun Zhang , Bao-Da Li , Ming-Hui Li , Lei Qian , Zhichen Pan

Pulsars have now been studied for 34 years. We know of the existence of some 1500 objects at radio frequencies. Many of the characteristics of pulsars such as pulsar period, period derivative, spectrum, polarization, etc., have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Wielebinski

We present a comparison between the average radio pulse profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the field and in globular clusters. Our sample consists of 20 field MSPs and 25 cluster MSPs for which observations exist at 400-600 MHz.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ray Jayawardhana , Jonathan E. Grindlay

The luminosity distribution of Galactic radio pulsars is believed to be log-normal in form. Applying this functional form to populations of pulsars in globular clusters, we employ Bayesian methods to explore constraints on the mean and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jayanth Chennamangalam , D. R. Lorimer , Ilya Mandel , Manjari Bagchi

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has discovered more than 650 new pulsars, which account for 20% of our known Galactic pulsar population. In this paper, we estimate the prospect of a pulsar survey with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-01 Mengyao Xue , Weiwei Zhu , Xiangping Wu , Renxin Xu , Hongguang Wang

We review current understanding of the underlying, as opposed to the observed, pulsar population. The observed sample is heavily biased by selection effects, so that surveys see less than 10% of all potentially observable pulsars. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Lorimer

Orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars' formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects. Advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters accurately in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Manjari Bagchi

We report on a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the pulsars in the globular cluster (GC) M5, including the discovery of M5G, a new compact non-eclipsing "black widow" pulsar. Thanks to the analysis of 34 years of radio data taken…

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

In this paper we review the recent discovery of several millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in eccentric binary systems. Timing these MSPs we were able to estimate (and in one case precisely measure) their masses. These results suggest that, as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-21 Paulo C. C. Freire

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

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

Binaries containing a stellar-mass black hole and a recycled radio pulsar have so far eluded detection. We present a focused investigation of the formation and evolution of these systems in the Galactic disk, highlighting the factors that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Pfahl , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Saul Rappaport